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Show SOME TRIFLES. lj Salt Lakk City, Oct. 16, 1S79. ' Editors Herald: Usually we expect pleasant weather in September, but the expectation was much of a failure this year. It was all too bot, loo dry, dusty, too anything but what was wanted. October Octo-ber of course was our next dependence, depend-ence, but it baa not justified our I expectations yet. In conference week the mercury went down from the eighties into the forties in a day or two, half way to ro at once. This was rather rough. One day sweltering swelter-ing in linen or alpaca dusters, tbe next shivering in beaver overcoats,; with snow on the mountains and rain in tbe valleys to lay the top of the dust, Tbere bave been indeed several days this month ot lair promise, some beautiful mornings, like this morning, moist, mild, balf cloudy, but too often followed by afternoons ot wind, Borne dust, baza and a degree of general unpleasantness, belying the bright promise of the morn. Then again the squadron of wise wild geeee that flew gabbling southward on Tuesday must have foreknown instinctively oi the storm of yesterday the wind, the cold, the rain, hail and Bleet. Indeed, the popular opinion is that the Eouth-ern Eouth-ern migration of the geese betokenB an early and severe winter, which, as a matter of course, nobody will be prepared for, should it come. Were people ever prepared lor winter T Doubtful. Were people ever prepared pre-pared for a rainstorm ? Equally doubtful. They have houses unroofed, un-roofed, adobies uncovered, potatoes ndug, peaches not dry, or some 1 Dther sort of unpreparednese. The raiu baa heid oil all summer, and ow that tbe clouds do drop their fat-ess, fat-ess, who is ready for it P Things never happen jutt right, always too soon or too late, or loo something 1 else. The rain, for instance. All the hot and dry summer long, when vege- 1 tation was wiiting prematurely, no 1 rain came, hardly a precious drop. Now that vteetaiiou is matured, what 1 waB not parched up to nothingness, 1 the rain comes. Just our luck, this year. Blessed is the man who is ' always pleased. He may plant and sow at his leisure, and reap whether ( the rain (alls or not, and hiB ooun f tenance beams with the light of satisfaction. Most farmers, however, 1 wiU be glad of this rain. s If enough has fallen to Boften tbe soil sufficiently for fall plowing, they will not grumble much about it, for to plow in late fail and bow in early spring has come to be one Qf the maximB of our thrifty farmers. More- . over, these rains will start tbe grass on the ranges, and hoaven knows it is E needed, for, between withering -drouth and close biting sheep, tbe cattle on a thousand benches will not revel in clover the coming winter, thougb let us hope that things are not quite bo bad as they are represented, j or milk, butter and beel will bo rather scarce next year. Tbe report is a c vexation, but things never are as bad t as the report. All reports suffer from f modification, thank heaven. Therefore There-fore may we confidently expect there will be bread and beet and potatos . and milk and butter and cheese next year as well as this, notwitbstand- E ing the drouth and its shrinking I eSects, which I am not at all disposed c to underrate. One of the effects is tbe low price of cows. A common cash price for a common good cow is $15. If a calf is thrown in, it makes little difference. This is as low a figure for ; this vicinity as I recollect in the bis- lory of the territory, and it boows tbe general apprehension of tbe fact that "feed" is Boarce, and will be the coming winter and spring. Hueo. |