From: Petrel, Adams County, ND
3 November 1914

Honored Editorship!

I have received the spring-loaded scissors. Thank you very much! Herewith I forward $1.00 for the Red Cross. (*Editor: This will be accounted for at a different place.)

We are all finished here with threshing. I can report that the harvest was not bad.

We ended up with 11 to 13 bushels of wheat per acre. This is the average yield in the region. The wheat has a good price as well, namely $1.00 to $1.05. These good prices make some people delirious, and they try to beat one another to lease the type of land that has been prepared well. But it is a great pity, yes a disgrace, that some of our German people do not prepare the land properly and then lament about it when the harvest fails.

I send a greeting to my friends in the Old and New World, and especially to Max Erker in Morton County, N.D. I haven’t heard from him in a long time.

Joseph Erker