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Show THE per stone—live weight. The result was, they fixed the price at 4s 3d per 14 hb. The fifteen beasts were driven to the weighing machine and the cattle weighed in pairs and the odd one. The total live weight was exactly 800 stones, which, at the agreed price, made a total of £170, or just 10 3d more than _ | the beasts could have been bought at. <> <g> THE FARMER'S CONGRESS. The National Farmer’s Congress which This Depariment will be devoted strictly began its annual convention ol to the interests and development of Western Farming and Stock Culture, and contributions from persons engaged in those pursuits are solicited. ae upon an equality with other securities. Following are some resolutions adopted: )>_~+ —_>,+ Resolved, That combinations of ate ee - ment such relating to the > >< says subjugation A BULL just been 2 re tee oo sete RD Sidpier dry season, as a white crust. They are found chiefly in low level regions; sometimes in continuous tracts of thousands of acres; sometimes many in spots so interspersed with non-alkaline land as to render it impossible to till one kind without the other. The nature and amount of salts in these soils is of course very variable. In some localities the “alkali” is often little more than common salt, and can be relieved by drainage or appropriate other localities only culture. In the “Alkali” is chiefly magnesian salts, lieve the trouble. when liming Butin some will reregions as secure to the ture of the salt, which contains more or less carbonate of soda, and sometimes potassa. The presence of these sub- crown, stunting, and in some cases caus- be filled by a thorough tillage. Now fortunately, a very effectual ana cheap neutralizer of this the true “Alkali,” is available PIG. stomach the slightest nourishment that he will not eat with his characteristic appetite. But of all the animals that man appropriates to his service, none receives so little humane consideration. He is willing to play the role of a common diet scavenger so far is concerned, and as his choice of because of this general good humor in accepting without protest anything that’s offered him in the line of food, the opinion seems to be common that nothing is wholesome or desirable to him unless it is so raised and fattened partakes infection that surrounds him. thing that to bring the serving of car- or breathes, it. ~<a _ useless soil may be expected to known to exist in many Territory of Utah, and rado, and the are portions of the State importance of Colo- of gypsum in connection with redeeming the waste alkali soil cannot be over estimated. The practical application of the above information, would be of enormous value to the valley of Salt Lake alone, where exists one or more of the various salts herein described. To condense the above, so that the agriculturist may write itin his memoran- animal what he might be sure to realize gives ‘an account of a sale of cattle which serves as an excellent illustration of the uncertainty. . of live weight purchases. It says: : “A sale and purchase of lean tou. of a Kurope. seeing He but one, and that in believed the cattle cancer they should agree upon a price they could be traced to this source. out. To do this it to confine the ania moveable fence or fartiers of equal the seeding of land thus pestered, with lucern or cloyer.a that Es hl ba iE Ti re Tur farmers markets. of New is cut--two,or THE the lucern or a Another plan is 5 wy Eggs, @ doz wish that California re- “s Shorts 66 gedueo 1 00. 80.) Barley! ce) 0 oe | | Bes, Cache Valley Notes. AFly Oe ST OR |g BD (4, “ : and Last year we had snow long before. this, that laid on the ground until spring. Plums, “ The way to ascertain the amount of lime or gypsum to be applied is by ex- The prospect is favorable for a railway bushels of lime, and from two hundred to ten hundred pounds of gypsum per acre will relieve the difficulty and make the “Alkali” soils more productive and lasting than soil in which these substances do not exist. If the papers will disseminate this information they will greatly. benefit the southern towns in the has already heard of change of the U. & and Pocatello into a tic ports week before last, while 578,000 of age or over. Veal Some side. The line willbe much more direct than at present, but the change will give Logan no advantages over the other towns as.a shipping point. The local line will almost circle the valley, taking in Wellsville, Hyrum,Millville and Providence, which hitherto have had no railroad connections.' ' Surveyors have been.|© and between that town and Logan. . Endeavors are being made to secure land-in that neighborhood, as it promises numerous advantages. This is the place the Governor and the locat- ee 8 FE a, (ae: em’ ee (6141, (45,,1 10 [a |? Alay © lide dOied AE else 1514) 8 rf |1b3 UtOc ary! Ich gates ee Hides 1% | aefo (eon ere ies Apricots“ = {10 |" |. valley. The the contemN. between wide guage, and the straightening of the track. The n.ain line will run along Bear River in Cache Valley, thus leaving Logan to one of Providence, id 80 oe Apples, in the mountains must be snow. to the public plated Ogden oe #% bu. | OB8® | ruin 90 14 00] ee 97 | 80 winter. mag- periment or chemical analysis, but it will be found that from fivo to forty Hop TiO) OO 19500! Mutsy drains, and thoroughly cultivate. For! soil containing in excess aes 66 |~ apply pulverized gypsum. ee DOB os 15:1 elie20 rae 1 302 ae10:1 101 people prognosticate a very open ee 6 dried, nesian salts, use lime and till, _ For soil containing alkali, drain. SAE Pomices The weather in this region has been exceedingly mild forthe season. We are 9 Oats 90 Peaches, open 2 502 I a gol 35 1 09 1 001 101 1011 00 iO[951 101 351 151 2 A FARMER. other by rf 98 1971412714] 30 | 22 ait Pesboles ase Bran. tained a monopoly of it. If this letter will have the effect: of calling forth some Corn discussion on the matter in question . Onions which will bring us more light, the writer will be well satisfied in the bene- Wheat, fit that farmers in general will receive. Hyrum, Nov. 26, 1888. - Hlour, @ hunle’ ls 5012 50° ; now fs ee 14 2 002 Wig time. We q ay Butter, @ tb | o> 2214 25 | o5 | 25 munerative use of the land at the same there. q ee be the most speedily effective as well as that which will give them the most reIt is believed that this weed was first introduced into Cache from California along with seed grain brought from ee Saturday, Dec. 1, 1888. clover out again or drain are CURRENT MARKET REPORT. three times a time to mature. By this plan. the farmer would still be drawing returns trom his land, but the work entailed in getting WESTERN “ alone, York State higher market. which plan would give ;the oats no ee “. dry| 8 green| 6 4 4 | 8 6 | i "Ogden Benoet Waresoted. week b H. 1. GRIFFIN, Wholesale Produce and Coin Merchant. Nephi Report VICKERS. Corrected weekly Proyo Report Corrected C. A. GLAZIER. | iy eae Logan Report Osrbateld: «ell J. A.McLaveutin, at Z. C. M. I. a W. by by Salt Lake Report Corrected meekly by Secretary of Produce Exchange. ing committee set upon when they Visited ¥ Cache. - Hides and Wool by J. W. Suivreiath ~ The people of Paridieel. are’ uci a = Where tayo sets of | figures are hard time of itin regard to the wood ‘quoted i in same space, price ranges from question. The Central Pacific Railroad one to the other. 6 : mate, in foreign would eat it off as it,appeared, and the roots would die would be essential mals by means of otherwise. Other prominence advocate having a storm now, a drizzling rain for tne last twenty-four hours, which, back salt and rights AMERICAN cattle are now bringing ten cents per pound, dressed weight esti- ni For soil containing in excess, common fund their <> ’ SOc somewhat unusual character was com- microbes transmissible to persons who bushels, or 37. times as-much was sent pleted at Malton Fair, the seller. being.a eat the meat, but inclined to the epinion abroad in the form of flour. well- known Irish breeder, and the pur- that the cancer germ so transmitted ~The National ‘Agricultural Subiet of chaser a more celebrated ram-dealer| would not manifest itself in the same Victoria, New South Wales, has resolved from the Beverley side. The two had manner in man asin beast. It might that, with a view to improving: the a tempted to do business in the old way,| take the form of lung disease and its stamp of horses, the Society ask the | namely, by a price per head, but having real nature not be suspected. Possibly Government to place an annual tax of | 4 failed: ‘to strike a bargain it was sug- many persons die of lung’ troubles that $50 or upwards on stallions three years gested a defense he dum: The can- A prominent now talking of forming a big apple trust, farmer of Wellsville says that if a sys- in hopes of getting better prices than tematic plan of grazing cattle and are now offered. A big storage waresheep on such land were carried on, it house is to be built by the combination, would have the effect of killing it out; and the apple harvest held to await a ~The “Big Jaw.”’ country as faras the “Alkali” extends, Dr. Bremer of St. Louis, who -is now which is almost universal in. this region. . ADVANCE. engaged in a critical examination of the disease commonly called big -jaw, ex-| "Exports of apples up to N ovember oy. in the field for the last three or four presses the opinion that the cattle can- | amounted to 454, 254 parrels against 250, : ees locating the road. cer is analogous to a certain form of ‘cancer. that afflicts the human species. : 090 barrels at the same date last yout, The probability i is that the Agticul: Only 16,600. bushels, of wheat in- the but the latter cases-are notcommon. He | form of grain were exported from Atlan- | tural College will be located to the north remembers not readily appear. . submit for consideration. of pul- possess condi- Tux Australians are building a fence of wire netting 8000 miles to keep the jack rabbits out of Queensland. I have heard some valuable suggestions in regard to this question which I to summer fallow the land and cut the extraordinary and lasting fertility. Extensive - deposits of gypsum these are determined to secure through the courts. altogether. oats off before they seed. There is no doubt that all these plans have their good features, and might be. worked with advantage; but farmers generally want to choose that which will verized gypsum relieves. all difficulties arising fromthe presence of the former. Moreover, it is found by analysis that in many cases large amounts of important mineral plant-food, such as potash, phosphates, and nitrates, accompany the injurious substances; so that when the latter are neutralized, the previously that people have formed fact pres- amount of alkali use in again they begin to grow. What:'is needed is to get them out of the ground |. would be considerable. is com- | ' petent, ought to know at first sight of an from IPR “An English aoricntbaeal aioe touches, eats of the Every- from the time the breath of life goes into his body till the butcher’s knife usurps its place,is teaming with disease; and the. stomach that ean relish food from such associations, however clean it may be, has a “nerve” fit to make a crow or a snipe ashamed cf himself. We have laws to protect the other dcmestic brutes from cruel treatment; why not extend that strong arm of mercy to the poor pig? he isi surely de- ‘There is still a residue of beef-growers in the West. who are. satisfied with the guessing system of estimating the value of, the cattle they drive to market. No matter whether the dealer purchases by the bunch or by live weight, the estimated value is a piece of guess-work in which he has every possible advantage. constantly in the business, if he he of gyp- caustic ent is not too excessive, the i for value as low as possible, and: while the beef-grower’s’ knowledge of the weight ‘and condition of ananimal would, in the ‘nature of things, be but a meagre aproximation to exactness, the dealer being form bonates into innocent sulphates. One of the most profitable animals on a farm is a pig. He can digest almost anything from sour cheese to adiscarded sausage grinder, and there is nothing that will afford to his inmeasurable Live Weight Estimates. business the sum, which transforms the THE Wherever the weeks old New York in has yons were opened for a short time vntil December ist, for people to procure their winters wood, but it is the intention to close them at that time. The under don’t seem to answer at all, for jst. as soon as the seeds are stirred up crop position tions does that the seeds fall quite a while before other grain ripens, its extirpation is unusually difficult. Plowing them deep year, said rapid count of its maturing early and the even the most that | >—~i<ii>-_>—+ It is.a.part of his lation at the surface whenever the rains cease and the corrosion of the root and it is presumable its spread that many persons are becoming alarmed for their fields. On ac- ten the case, the seed is killed during <>. >+ calf six soid in stances, even to the extent of one-fourth is so tenacious of existence and effort tions should secure the right of way. Moreover, the railroad land is only the alternate sections, and how they can keep people from the government sec- What is the best means of getting ride of wild oats? Some portions of the valley are already overrun by this weed and it germination. The land so afflicted cannot be brought to productiveness by recom- $2.500. You farmers, who are ex- stinking with putrescent matter. His hausting the wealth of your lands food is usually allowed to accumulate to feed to stock that when matured and stand in some filthy receptacle till it | would not bring you in a favorable is vile with rottenness; the vessel from market. more than fifteen to which he is compelled to eat his putrid rations is as nasty as the filth in which twenty dollars—does this little he wallows by day and sleeps by night transaction suggest anything to can make it. It is difficult to determine to your minds? just what extent the meat of an animal Riper fore ache Apres Ten pty Senate CM st: GR IE" nat aePMG SPOTS PEN GTR: eer to able body creating the Cabinet position of >~—<<t_>—~+- ee farmers of this region. them the name “Alkah” is justified by the na- - “= <Q $2,000,000. F ties of soluble salts as to allow become visible on the surface during the States The next meeting will be held at Montgomery, Alabama. -average from $0) to $12 a week. Last season the pr oduction of these evaporators was about 300,000,000 pounds, worth at first. cost about Hey Z “Alkali” soil is the name used to designate any soil containing such quanti- and Arizona, is how to practically and effectually reclaim the ‘alkali soils. an been made to keep teams out of the canyons by fencing them up.There are roads in these caxyons that have been used for the past twenty-five years, on which thousands of dollors have been expended weight to farmers in Cashe Valley, which I wish to draw the attention of Utah farmers to through the columns of your valuable journal. JI dothis for the purpose of eliciting responses from men who may possess information and experience which would prove most valuable to the parts of California, Wyoming, Colorado United practical farmer. ‘ing the Autumn‘and Winter to about 30,000 hands, whose wages aoe vital of ull the quesNevada, as likewise of Secretary of Agriculture, and mend AN eastern exchange makes the _ statement TE aen “Within a radius of forty miles of Rochester, N. Y., there are more than 1,500 fruit - evaporators give employment dur- ne oe One of the most tions in Utah and of the will ‘|right to individuals and Eprrors WESTERN WEEKLY:— There is a question of constderable ing the final death of the plants. But when the alkali-is-stronger as is too of- if as he ‘desert lands in the West. Be legislation Reclaiming The “Alkali” Soils means to secure the speedy passage of the bill now pending before that honor- and here.--more on this and several other very important subjects ieeea oS industries, and we demand land extends to the canyon east. The railroad has conditionally disposed of its To Subdue Wild Oats. (Correspondence of the Western Weekly.] of one per cent, results.in their accumu- onstrated by actual test, then nothing remains but to adopt and use them. We hope we shall ae our Congress WEEKLY. farmers and stock-raisers of this country the West are those that were once the best possible reward for their labor. saturated: with the minerals. that We demand legislation that will discontinue and prevent in future the formapass under the common name of tion of such combinations and trusts. alkal. The statements of our Resolved, That we urge our delecorrespondent are based upon gates in Congress to use all honorable scientific truths eae 1 Bae Ce ike Se {Ba of of the their practicability has been dem— es ty we are opposed to all capital in trusts or otherwise to arbitrarily control the markets of this country to the detri- ject of subduing alkali soil. Ithas been proven beyond question that the most durable lands we have in Ee fea ie matthe the the acceptance of real estate securities for loans. The convention asks congress to amend the law so as to place real estate In another column a southern correspondent makes some very excellent suggestions on the sub- 3. Topeka, Kas.,on the 14th discussed some ters of considerable importance to country at large. One of them was national banking law that forbids The first quarter of THE WeEsTERN WEEKLY is completed with this number. >—~ 4 > at WESTERN Dre ee 3 |