eddle
vegetables to people here--ran two wagons--now I run three. Got
new feed for horses. By fall had lots of stuff. Married in
1900--year after went to Birmingham. Second year I was able to
buy two good mules--Had two good wagons made. Fall of second year
had another which made three. Running three now. I employ six
people--3 men and 3 women all the time. I drive the wholesale
wagon.

I raise between $3,500 and $4,000 worth of stuff each year. Have
since the second year. I sell about $2,000 a year above expenses.
Production increases every year. I learned all I know about
trucking since then. I have fifteen head of cattle. Eight milking
cows. I raise three crops. That is the highest. Third crop is not
worth so much. 90,000 cabbages this year. Got the plants from
South Carolina. I bought a piece of land in Oklahoma for $3,000
outside of 22 miles from Muskogee. Land rents now for $300. I own
a lot in Red Bird. Have 2 children. 14 & and 17. They go to
school.

Won county prize year before last--196 bushels--this year
received State prize 200 bushels. Plant eight and ten acres of
cotton, 14 acres corn. Raise all my fodder. Three-fourths acres
of new sugar cane, 150 gals. of syrup. I make butter $30 per
hundred. $40 retail. I take two or three little farm journals and
take the bulletin.

These letters addressed to R. E. Park and to Booker T. Washington give
information about the estate of John McKee:

Estate of }
JOHN MCKEE, }
Deceased. }

HON. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON,
Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama,

_Dear sir:_

Your favor has been received and in reply thereto I would state
that the State Appraiser fixed the valuation in Estate of the
late Colonel John McKee as follows:

Gross valuation of Personal estate, $ 71,644.29
Gross valuation of real estate in Pennsylvania, 271,188.33
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Making together, $342,832.62
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Net valuation of the above, $212,831.86

Of this $46,500. is in unimproved real estate from which, at this
time, no income is derived.

In addition to the above the Estate owns the following from