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Title
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Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, 1897, Nov. 14
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Alternative Title
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Lawrence Bruner Letters, 1897
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Date
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1897, Nov. 14
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Creator
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Lawrence Bruner
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Description
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Handwritten 2 page letter from Lawrence Bruner to Marcia Bruner, "I have finally received your letters written on Sept 19..."
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Identifier
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081210-1897-031b
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Transcription
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conclusions. Of course without all sorts of information I cannot get at the bottom of affairs as I would like to. Am afraid now that I cannot make as full a report at the close of my year as I should like to simply because information of the proper kind is not obtainable here in this country. Then too, it sometimes looks as if there are those who do their best to prevent the information from reaching me. I may be wrong in thinking so, but it really does look so at times. Of course I do not worry much on that account because I know that I am trying to do my duty in working for the elimination of the locust pest from the country. If there are those living here who allow jealousy to take so strong a hold as to cause them to try to prevent such a result I cannot help it. All I can say is that it is a pity that people are so constructed.
Have been sending out a lot of the fungus — killed locusts with the hopes of spreading the disease and I sincerely hope that the disease will take hold in earnest whenever it is tried, for I have more hopes in something of this kind finally reducing the pest than all that the settlers themselves will do in the way of artificial destruction. By "artificial" destruction I mean all such methods as capturing the fliers and young and the destroying of eggs. Still I cannot complain any so far as the present year goes, for really the people have done ecellent work. Already over 30,000 tons of locusts and eggs have been destroyed — enough to devestate over 300 square miles of territory. And the good work still goes on.
Since writing the above I have been away on the train to the 2d station to the west of here where theyare having a great auction of cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, &c. Left at 8 o'clock in the morning and returned at 5:04 P.M. While there visited the estancia of a Mr. Greenwood, a special friend of Mr. Jameses, and an excellent man. The sale or auction is something similar to a "fair" at home only that here the stock is brought together for sale, and there for exhibition. It is an excellent place to see the "goucho" in all his glory. Wish that I would have had my camera along so as to have got some intereting pictures.
During the week we have received a consignment of locust fungus from Grahamstown, South Africa that we hope to use here against the Argentine pest, and I hope with a s good results as they claim to have have in Africa. Still, if what Prof. Bessey writes about the fungus that I discovered here proves true, we have a very good thing right at home and don't need any foreign affair. So far all who have tried the native fungus say that it works all right. The next thing is to get the natives to consent to use what a foreigner has apparently discovered and suggests.
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