We have ploughed six acres of wheat land and shall have it sown this next week if we are spared and I am going to plough six more acres for oats and grass and potatoes and garden and four acres of grass for the colt to keep him away from the mares and I hope next year we shall have nothing to buy but tea and sugar. The land turns up well and I think it will grow a good crop. I hope you shall be down hear at shearing or before then and bring Douglas down and I will have this poney mare ready for him to ride. We shall have a great deal of work down hear soon. The place will be quite different when you se it again. The last time I was down hear