Show wheat sowing the farmers in this and ana adjoining valleys are now busily engaged n in sowing wheat and in all probability many of them have not yet learned that what they sow they may expect to reap that is to say that if they sow dirty ze smutty seed they may be quite certain that the crop produced will be the same but if they take the precaution to provide good seed and have it properly prepared before sowing a bountiful crop may be anticipated free from smut of which there has been too much raised within the last few years there are men who have been engaged in farming for years who have never raised a crop of smutty wheat in deseret while there are others who have of late raised no other lind hind that wheat may be grown here without smut and that there is no necessity for producing it has been satisfactorily proven by the experience of many little or no smut having haying hav lri lil i g been teen seen in crops where the seed has been clean and properly prepared before it was sown there are many ways of preparing seed wheat to prevent smut some of which may be better and more sure to avert the evil than others but by preparing seed wheat in the manner set forth in the following aion tion from an old english farmer very little smut may be expected to be produced the expense attending a the process will be but trifling when compared with the profit that will result from the op operation aeration era tion SOUTH MILL CREEK march ath 1861 el distort DESERET NEWS SIR I 1 have for some time had bad it in nay any mind to make a remark or two on tb the e of sowing wheat a subject of no small importance especially to a people in our circumstances I 1 nave have long listened to the opinions of men with regard to the cause of smut in I 1 wheat which are very numerous nume rou but scarcely one ohe that agreed with my experience I 1 1 not mention the various reasons assigned but wills will in the shortest manner state what appears to me the most reasonable and effectual method of preventing this great evil I 1 noticed a short time since in the news an article on chinese agriculture very interesting but what particularly attracted my attention was the steeping or or soaking the seed in liquid manure and I 1 would observe here that china is admitted to be ahead of most nations i in agriculture apiculture in some parts of england lime is is made for the purpose of the land jand and in other parts salt is used for that purpose to prepare wheat for sowing so wing I 1 take a tub or barrel barrei in which you can steep two or three bib bis bishens dus ous heis hels as to leave room for the light stuff to swim so that it maybe may be skimmed ot orf having the water salt enough to nearly swim an egg there should be a tap near the bottom of the barrel to let out the brine after the wheat has rema Tema remained ined in it about four hours take out the wheat and put it on the floor after strewing it with lime then strew thereon some more lime dind aind stir it together then each kernel will be impregnated ilich illch in regna ted with salt and coated in lime which is something like soaking in liquid manure or with lime and salt this to english farmers may be nojir noting g new mew but there are many farmers f in this territory S both from england and other countries wha who are not acquainted with farming to such it is important and I 1 have no doubt whatever that many thousands of bushels of wheat instead of smut would have been realized in this territory within the last few years if this method had been regularly adopted have tried it and proved it to my full satisfaction J F |