Show to the saints saints take care of your wheat talie take care r of f all kinds of grain you have in possession and let nothing be lost great quantities of grain were sown and planted in utah the last year showers from the heavens irrigated the earth and all vegetable creation smiled with plenty the lord had previously decreed a da day y of general famine in all the coasts of animal existence and forewarned the saints and the saints had forewarned the world but who knows tile the day or year the famine is to commenced commence we do not any more than we do the time the precise time of the coming of the son of man but we know it is soon yea very soon notwithstanding all the labor of the farmers the last season and the great quantity of seed they sowed bowed when the grain blossomed the winds of heaven blew away the blossom blosso iti and for want wani of the ferina much wheat was wanting in the head the shucks were vacated when the wheat was still further matured a hail storm passed over the interior of thi th ss s valle valley yand and destroyed t 0 O a great quantity of wheat and other grain for all these things we have no reflections only let 0 our u r heavenly father do as he pleases soon followed the emigration hundreds and thousands of cattle arrived in our midst and some evil minded persons circulated the report that all things were common the fence around the big field was thrown down and before our ministers of justice could inter interfere ibre the remains of the big field from hail were destroyed by cattle to a great extent and in one olle month from these various causes ea uses we have no reason to doubt that thirty thousand bushels of grain were destroyed in one field fields after that period those same cattle still hungry from the parched prairie with others but too unruly broke into other fields in other settlements as the emigrants scattered abroad in the territory and destroyed much grain the high winds of the season also had an unfavorable effect on the harvest barvest in other places as well as this so that when the farmers began to thrash they generally received only about two thirds and from that to one halt and less of what they had expected when compared wit with h the previous harvest they found more straw than wheat many could not get their grain thrashed thia th shed with a machine till very late and could no not t hire common laborers and when they thrashed they found the mice which are like the locusts of egypt in an old stack had taken their share and there was very little left for the owner but B at the snow snow and rain storms came on at an unusual period and prevented the thrashing of many chany stacks till this time and what the report from those stacks will be a bating abating the rain snow and mice mice i we need not divine but one thing we can divine that so far as we have heard very few stacks of grain hay or straw have been left entire since the opening of the stormy season 0 owing to the outbreaks and in breaks of starving cattle and for a season during tie the past storms we have no doubt that immense quantities of grain pre thrashed have been fed to cattle cattle and horses to prevent their starving to death on on the prairies abating the multitude that have starved and frozen to death the extreme cold and deep snows have required an unusual amount of feed for calves hogs pigs and poul poultry fry aal this has taken off a great amount of grain bes de des as cold increases in these mountains the appetite of the people increases and they eat much more than they do in maldet weather Is this all not quite the previous harvest to tile the last was abundant it was difficult tor for the saints to store their r giai as the lord had promised it t they would only do right he would pour them out blessings till they had no room to receive he had also foretold them of the near at ut hand baid famine but tey seemed to have foi forgotten gotten that and instead of 0 laying upa up a few bushels bubels a against 11 the time of nee need drunk rum after every emigrant that passed through him to buy a ba bar I 1 of flour at 2 12 1 2 arid and 3 cents per pound while those same emigrants were ashamed of 0 selves and much more of the saints that they had bad carted flour more than a 1000 miles from a country where wheat was worth no more than 25 cents per I 1 I 1 bushel having paid 4 and 5 cents per pound for their flour where it was not worth mo more re than 1 11 12 1 2 and then I 1 have it begged wn on to them at 2 12 1 2 wid and 3 were not ashamed of the S saint it if they were not they pitied their duplicity their littleness when they did not expect to glet get a pound in this territory short of lorents 10 lo cents and what was the result aye what was the result that tells the story the emigrants stopped in this and other settlements to fatten their mules miller and horses on saints flour at 2 21 12 1 2 and 3 cents per pa jewwl id and would they drive their team to ta pasture one or two miles while they could buy feed thus no they did dia abot no noa they would not As wise eh children ildron of this generation A they did as we would have done fed where theja could do it the cheapest and best tor for when the they v w aill an ted fed a little garbage with their flour you would run 11 after af ter them and their heir inn keepe Kc ene s and beg off a loaa I 1 I 1 of good hay bay ata at 4 anda and 5 dollars per ton and where can you get it now for ten where can you get a ton of hay bay for twenty should another storm like the last pass before you youl where are the stacks of hay bay i for sale on emigration emi ration route eoute in all utah ulah tell us and we will publish them gratis stacks of straw even where are they look at the hundreds of I 1 cattle reported dead on the prairies during the late 1 I 1 storm and ansted answer look at the thousands to be dead ou the prairies a few weeks hence if indians I 1 and spaniards aids who have dodt here from time immemorial prophecy correctly and answer sa ants what will you do with this friendly caution to take care of your grain will you vou raise at once on the price among yourselves this would be just like the rest of your folly in this theory sell for nothing to strangers and make your brethren foot tile the bill no brethren take care of your grain feed the widow and fatherless the infirm and poor and be saving er and liberal with what you have if any saint supposes he is gaug to get rich by offering his wheat or grain or flour at an advanced I 1 price on account of what behave we have written or any other cause mark thai tha man he isa is a speculator in your midst designing to enrich himself on your destruction or an apostate ready to start for the gold mines or hell as soon as he be can 21 get get money enough out of you to cany can y him home but dont hinder binder his passage only by not helping his speculation tor for e is grain e hoagh if all will be prudent to save the saints t till another harvest but for the good 1 of all emigrants we wish it understood they need not expect to obtain a pound of flour in utah next coming season for less than llian one dollar per pound for it is not here for them we have much more to say to the saints about pain gi ain but we cannot say it now |