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Very truly youre,
E.F.Speare & Sons.
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Sioux City,lowa.
Gentlemen:-
We are thie evening in receipt of your telegram reading
"Bock ue car Blue Grass your quotation". _ ‘
Accordingly we enter eale to you car load 270 bage or 50,000%;,
new crop twenty pound test Export Fancy Cleaned Kentucky Blue Grass Seed
at 83 cts.per buehel of I4 % delivered Sioux City. Shipment your option
August or September. ·
Kindly write ue if you wish shipment August or September that
‘ we may so arrange.
we thank you for the order and are very pleased to have gotten
started with you. K
Very truly yours,
E.F.Spears & Sons,
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received it before this.
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We have to report falling market in Kentucky Blue Grass past V
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yield,crop turning; out half as much again as any ones estimate before 4
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Sioux City Seed & Nursery CO,
Sioux Gity,Iowa.
Gentlemen:—
Please advise if you are ready for shipment car Fancy Ken-
tucky Blue Grass sold you July Ilth for September shipment.
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we are bulking to—day and such as we propose to furnish.
Very truly yours,
E.F.Spears & Sons,
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Sioux Gity,Iowa,
Gentlemen:-
_Your letter of the 15th received. The sample sent you was
pure Kentucky of the 1904 crop. However ear it represented has beel .
shipped. will get out special car this weeu for you and submit identical
sample for approval.
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. Wednesday the 28th.
A VST? T·I’u].y yOU.I‘S,
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‘ Gentlemen:-
rour letter 24th. By this mail under seperate cover we
are sending large sample Fanoy Cleaned Kentucky Blue Grass Seed.
The sample was taken from bulk pile we have on floor to—day. We H
know this car to have been made from stripped Blue Grass that was ripe
when harvested and cured out without being heated. It is all new crop. I
The test per bushel of this bulk is 21 éounds whereas our contract A
calls for 20 #0und test.
A Please let us have your approval by telegraph at our expense
las we will hold identical lot until then.
Very truly yours,
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Your letter of the 5rd received last evening. In answer we
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