Show culture of madden maider n the growing of madder in this thia part ot oe the state is attracting considerable attention and many inquiries have been and are bein being baing g in made ad e as to the best beat mode of culture not havin having 9 had experience in the matter we are unprepared to give any instructions in relation relation to the subject as a we know not what kind 0 soil is best lest lid eid apted to its growth neither at what time in the spring the seed should be planted and as aa to the mode of putting it into t the he ground and cultivating the pla pia plants n t 8 we are a altogether 0 uninformed but there are chwe and not a few in these valleys who have been engaged in the production of vegetable dyes dyea and understand the modus operand operandi of growing mad madder der and they owe the knowledge they hey possess in that respect as aa well as aa in all others to the comma ity and they should I 1 impart in part it at the earliest practicable date the 1 he following communication n the culture of madder received a few days since is not net very explicit but bat it may be sufficiently so for the purpose for which it was intended provo april 1862 1802 ED deseret NEWS some five years since I 1 commenced the culture of the madder plant plan t I 1 prepare the ground a ligh light sandy a soil by digging it deep and putting half a bushel of lime on each square rod I 1 plant the last of april making my drills three feet apart and planting the seed in the drills one foot apart when the plants get about four inches high I 1 nip off tha the top of each so that they may throw out lateral shoots and when these attain the height of from eight to ten inches I 1 bend them down and cover them with earth all but about two inches of the top end which I 1 nip off as in the first instance for the production of more lateral shoots these I 1 also in turn bend gown and bury as aa before ard aid continue the tile process dur during ing the season in lri 1 lightly cover up the plants for protect protection to a f and when I 1 remove the thetos top soil and continue to cultivate as during the first season till th ahr roots are it fit for use whick is sheh they the y are three years vears old the dutch use them when wo two but the french not till tilt they are three years old the older the plants the better the color vien vlen the plants are taken tip up for use nse which be in ill the pring spring cut out we the eyes and which will produce roots fit for use oney dar car sooner than when grown from th the e seed madder ladder seed is not considered consid ercil erell good ahen plants before they are three years old I 1 intend to plant hai hair with madd r this is spring D GRAVS |