[first page/s missing] certainly I am very fond of him in every way but just the want of aplication and perservance he wants. There is very few has got a better head for planing or doing any thing if he liked but as I tell him what is the good of great plans without acting upon them and putting them in force. It is astonishing what can and would be done by constant application. When it rained the other day I sent all hands to huske the corn which was beginning to spoil. He saw then the justice of that for I told him Alic you told me this would not spoil. You see now it will and every one but yourself