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Show Tooele Hems--Patties in from Tooele county represent things in that section as not being in a very flourishing condition. Tne crop of cereals was only au average aver-age one, and the Iruit crop is almost a total failure. Tbe peaches were, excepting in tome fuvorcd localities, nipped in the hud (blossom) by frost, consequently making a very light crop; tbe apples, heretofore conaidered a sure crop, have been destroyed by that pestiferous inaect known as the "borer," which has for several yearsj post rendered the apple orchards of j this city as ueoleee to their owners as! a fifth wheel would be to a wagon. 1 Tbe citizeos of Tooele, Grantsville1 and other places io that valley intend next year to gather all fruit liable '.0 infection, and utterly destroy tbe. same, and then quarantine the valley to prevent the introduction of any more trees from the intested districts This course, if perflated in for a couple of years, would certainly rid the country of the pett. |