conductor around again he thinks he is getting along alright. Marshalltown quiet a large city. there at about 8 a.m. weather cold. looks like winter with snow on the ground through Mechanicsville about 1030 a.m. great corn country here fields and fields of old corn stalks standing. they do not cut them here just pull the ears off. and turn the cattle and hogs in to eat the stalks. they had the cattle & hogs in when we went down in Dec. and still there yet. more hogs here than I ever saw before. also more mud. it is real mud. as the soil is black. saw two teams on a light wagon. mud of their legs up to their bellies. a man told me he saw four horses trying to pull a Ford Coupe out of a mud hole. one horse had