Burch Feb 11/20 1888
Dear brother,
I thought that I would write you to night. Did you get my letter. _____ getting along very well this winter with the chores. ____ ____ ____ _____ very well and is getting fat. Jum[?] and Rock waighs twenty nine hundred and sixty pounds. The other stock is doing well.
We hitched Prince up last week and he broked the tongue out of the slays, but he did not hurt him any nor any thing elce. We are having a pretty good winter out hear. We have had too thaws hear that has lasted about two weaks and it has got to snow before it can aset up a verey good blizzard. The snowing is pritty,all of of the flowing. The roads is pritty bad now. It is all ice and they are ____rce then thear was last spring. The snow is about as high as the barn and you can walk over the hay stacks. It is drifted as high as the barn yard fence and the straw stacks is all covered up, but I have not had as much shoveling as thear was last winter. We will have plenty of hay and stacks to last us. Nail[?] has been ____ hear twice sence you have been away. Winnie says she is going to write to you. We have not sold the big team. We got your letter today. Are you going to come back as you sed. Ma says she is going to write to you, but I guess I have not left much to write. We are all well and I hope this will find you in the same fix. Is abby any better. Dakota is the place to live. I must go now and milk. Write soon and a good long letter.
From your brother,
Ned L. Moore
Burch, Marshal Co, Dakota
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