discontinue the use of both kainit and acid phosphate. If you sell
only grains and animal products, the amount of potassium sold from
the farm is very small compared with your supply of that element,
which would be sufficient for one hundred bushels of corn per acre
for seven hundred years.

I have some doubt if it will be worth the expense involved to have
the samples of subsurface and subsoil analyzed at this time; but you
might save them for future use if desired.

I shall always appreciate the kindness shown me by being permitted
to enjoy your hospitality and to profit from the information you
were so able to give me concerning the history and general character
of your lands.

My mother asks to have her kind regards extended to you and yours.

Very sincerely yours,

PERCY JOHNSTON.

WESTOVER, January 2, 1904. Percy Johnston, Esq., Winterbine, Ill.

MY DEAR FRIEND:--We were all pleased to receive your letter
informing us of your safe journey back to Illinois. I had hoped that
you might find a piece of land here in the East which would suit
you; but I am not surprised that you and your mother should prefer
to remain in Illinois, because of your former associations and your
better knowledge of the Western conditions. Northern men who come
South often have serious difficulty to manage our negro labor.