cams_rjboylan_b012_f003_007_3

As it respects the management of home affairs I do
not presume to give any comand [commands] in my former letters I
have made many sugestions [suggestions] but I do not expect you to do
as I proposed respecting the management of the farm &c
but I wish you to act as you may think proper. it is
impossible for me after an absence of over two years
to give any advise [advice] I only say do and manage as you think
best and I will be satisfied. I would propose to have from two to
four acres of ground sowed with good clean rye so that we can
have seed another year to sow for winter feed -- raising stock
will be the drift of my business when I return. I expect you will
put the money I sent by draft ($500) Jan 26 -- where it can
be comanded [commanded]. I want James to have what is comeing [coming] to him
the day it is due and if he can lay it out to advantage
before let him have it but I wish him to Keep clear of any
Althouse or Wilkison speculations. let him put up all
the hay and buy as much young stock as he can Keep
if he chooses to go into the stock business. I am satisfied that
is the most sure road to wealth -- if he can be contented to
persue [pursue] it I want when I return as many heifers and filleys [fillies] as
I am able to pay for and then I intend to Keep them and make
money out of the increase. The business is slow but sure and
a man that has some Capital to invest can do better than
run his chance in California, but above all things I do
abhor runing [running] in debt unless it might be for a cheap
tract of land. My affairs ever after this will be Kept
within a birds eye glance -- and try and spend the remain-
der of my life in tranquility and in making an effort to
make my home pleasant and agreeable to all my family
for no man loves his home more than I do and nothing but
to attain that desired object could induse [induce] me to become an
exile from home and loved ones and I shall ever feel gratefull [grateful]
even for the verry [very] moderate success that I have had in accom-
plishing the grand object of liquidating all demands against RJB