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Show Fine trnin. We have some speeinieu heads of wheat, rye, and barley, grown this season, on 1 1 ie fa nn of M r. Va n Schoonhovcn, at Pleasant Green, or ".Starvation Point'' as it usetl to be named, eleven miles west of Salt Lake City. The berries are full and plump, and the heads r.rc loaded to the very lips. The samples, which are said to be a fair average, indicate a superior crop of each kind of grain. Mr. Van richoonhoven has some two hundred and fifty acres sown, the harvesting of which will commence in alnjut a week. No irrigation was used. There are aloul fifteen thousand acres of land in that vicinily. all of which is capable of producing superior wheat as soon art facilities for irrigation arc supplied. Xo better qualities of g'.ain than the samples shown, could he desired de-sired in any country. |