Now Mary I have given all that I can think of that will be likely to interest you, with reference to what is going on here, so I will turn, where my treasure is "for there my heart is also".  I have writen to Austin and requested him to hand the comunication to you so that you are fully acquainted with its contents, and have propably passed your Judgement on the merits of my proposition.  I will say in this conction that as an other reason why I would be willing and anxious to go in with him as a partner, his ideas and mine, so well acord in so many respects about farming, particularly in reference to plowing, as to depth and the maner of doing it.  I am more convinced, from observation on these southern plantations, that the main secret of successful farming is in deep and thorough plowing, and that too as far as posible in autumn. There is no other man that I would feel willing to go into a stock or farming business with except my brothers or father, The want of confidence in others owing to our natural selfishness would be an objection, But in this case there is no lack on my part and I don't think there is on his.  My object will be to go into the buisness with energy.. and my theory that where there is union, there is strenghth,  I know that one head ought to be able to carry on the buisness of a farm and I have no fears to embark on as large a scale as our means will admit.  You may think and it may be so that under all the circumstances these calculations are premature,  But I think the rebellion is fast drawing to a close, and at the farthest I expect to return to private life and my former associations and ocupation in a little over ten months, and as I have decided not to commence again on the old farm, I feel anxious to have it sold - and a new one secured.  These are fast times, and now is the time to sell improve farms & to buy raw prairie, which I would rather do than to buy improved, unless the place was new & the improvements of a proper kind, we could then build to suit our taste. I have mentioned thre diferent sections of of country - there are others equally as good, perhaps better
