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Letter, unidentified to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, Jan. 20

Item

identifier/filename
371-00033
title
Letter, unidentified to Lawrence Bruner, 1905, Jan. 20
description
Typewritten letter, 2 pages, from unidentified to Lawrence Bruner, "I thank you very much for yours of recent date…"
Transcription
ow worthy professor could I urge you to lay this matter before one or all of our legislators who in your mind would take the proper interest in the matter. If you lay it before them it might have ten times more force than if we farmers did it. But let me tell you that if we cannot stop the shooting of these valuable birds we will at some near day be overcome with grasshoppers which even now cut the seed pods of alfalfa to such an extent as to make it no longer profitable to raise alfalfa seed. Besides the cut-worms kill many of the alfalfa plants - sometimes causing large bare spots in the field. It is acknowledged by the Ilinois bankers that our Nebraska alfalfa has raised the price of land ten dollars per acre and the fall wheat another ten dollars per acre. Shall we have all this destroyed by hunters? Yours very truly, Signed.
date
1/20/1905
source/RG#/MS#
MS 0371
isPartOf/Collection
Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NOU), Records
rights
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publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
language
English