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Show Cache Valley Xotes. Tlie grain crop throughout Cache Valley, with the excef Uonof that raised on dry farms, Is lighter than usual. The "dry farming" at Lcw-Iston Lcw-Iston and Mendon has been unusually unusu-ally successful this year. Bishop Hughes, of the latter place, was Utrcshlug his grain jesterdayand expressed the opinion that his wheat ralsm! wttlinlif trrlillA ..!. yield on an average twenty-five bushels peraere, aud In view of the saving in IsUrovcr that which he Irrigated and Tor which he liad plenty of water, his "dry farming" was the most profP .ble. Joseph Hardman, another citl-zenxif citl-zenxif Mendon, who clilms to have theheaviest and cleaneit grain raised without water, exited his wheat to j icld thirty-five bushels per acre. It is of the Sonora variety, was so-vn In the sprlng.has attained a good height and Is well beaded and filled. John Barrett, of Mendon, who, by the way, is something of a chicken fancier, reports a rather extraordinary extraordin-ary yield of hen fruit from four pullets of the Silver Poland variety which he purchased last spring. In the space of six t-in weeks Uiexj four birds produced 3.M .-. ,. , which Uiey commenced moulting prejaratory tj commencing lust-nes lust-nes again. Being of a kind that never "sit," Uie batching ot the eggs has t? be done bv other fowls. He has also Uie golden Poland, Uie white crested black Poland and the Houdan of Imported breeds, and expects, by ktrplns tho several strains separate during the breeding psison, to carry on quite a buslcess next year In the production of unmixed un-mixed breeds of fou'try. , The Agricultural College at Logan Lo-gan Is nearlng completion and Is an imposing structure commanding a view of one of the finest landscape In Uie world. A residence for the principal, a laboratory imd a barn are also in course of construction just north of the college, and the crops raised on Uie farm are marvel-good marvel-good for the first year. |