Show experimental FARMING have repeatedly called the attention of farmers in this territory to the important au subject abject of malting making experiments in agri agriculture 1 culture and pointed out some of the benefits to be derived not only to themselves but to generally if they would but ma move ve in the matter and give to the public the result of their operations knowledge derived by experimenting 0 1 in whatever pertains to the tillage of the soil is more valuable than many have supposed and can be obtained without much expense or labor and if those who are engaged t L in farmin farming 9 would give the subject that consideration which its importance demands they would lose no time in taking C the initiatory step to themselves of that knowledge which is within the reach of all and easily obtained and when acquired would be an invaluable treasure from which much pecuniary benefit would result the following 1 from the germantown tele graph by a berks county farmer is replete with good ideas and sug suggestions t in relation to the subject under consideration which the farmers of utah will do well to follow out the coming season to some extent it would be an important point gained in the advancement of agriculture could but a few of our farmers be persuaded to try each of them a single experiment in field husbandry during the next year selecting for a subject any one of the commonly cultivated plants which supply aliment to either man or beast such an enterprise need not necessarily involve much expense A limited extent of surface or even a box or pot pf af soil would embrace an area sufficiently extensive for the carrying experiments which might be rendered of great practical importance to the farmer the effects of certain fecund abing manures on certain crops or upon crops under varying or different circumstances may be observed as well on a small extent of surface as on a lar iare large lare e one on the subject of vegetable physiology for instance notwithstanding stan dirig all that has been published concerning its mysteries and its laws how little in reality do we know of either if we take even the first principle of vegetation we shall find that scarcely any two writers entirely agree in relation to them antagonist theories and discrepant hypotheses are as abundant among writers as among theolo fists mere meri a speculative philosophy has supplied the place which should be occupied by demonstrative knowledge and simple dreams the place of actual fact every farmer has both time and opportunity to institute and carry out not only oue one experiment but several let him for instance select one two or three vegetables of different kinds and arid try the effect of a given manure upon each and all suppose he be should procure a number of pots or vessels and having filled them with good soil should add ada to tb the e contents of one a certain quantity of phosphate of lime to another alike a like ilke quantity thiril by weight or measure of of guano gua noto to a third and so on till his pota were all employed each one having the same kind of earth but a different kind of manure and that in these pots b ha a should on the same day plant at a uniform depth a certain number of wheat grains or kernels of corn in this way not only one experiment but a series of experiments would be instituted the results of which might throw much light upon a subject not yet very definitely or clear clearly different lerent understood der stood viz the relative value of dif dlf different manures when applied to wheat and corn because our fathers produced on virgin and different soils good and and remunerating crops of both these important staples with but little or no manure it by no means follows as a necessary result that similar efforts on our part will be followed by sim aim lar results in the long process of cropping the vegetal es grown upon the soil have taken from it more than the parsimonious applications that have been bestowed have returned to it the phosphates and silicates have been exhausted and must bere here supplied other mineral substances essential to the healthy development and proper of these cro crops 9 have also been measurably consumed or abstracted abstracted from the soil without any compensating return the humus supplied has not been adequate to the exhaustion produced by successive crops of roots and cereals and hence it is that agriculture becomes a profitless and irksome pursuit the result of a few simple simpie and cheap expert ment men tsmay sma y set us right in this important matter and teach us what our lands are deficient of and what we must supply in order to render them fertile in the production action of roots and grain this is an important subject i to the farmer at this day and we trust it will wilp receive the attention it so eminently deserves wool gathe gathering ring B blankets were named at af 4 te ter one thomas blanket who flourished in j the town of bristol england during the reign of edward III ill in 1337 and who was the 1 first to make cloth now known by his name the thread or yarn now known as worsted was first manufactured in the town worsted near bristol and hence its name lidsey linsey woolsey was first manufactured in the town of or Linse yand obtained obtain id its name from hav having ing first been manufactured in shops situated on two streams heKt he kerbey and mere in suffolk engi Engl england md dl |