Show GREAT CHEAT G S L CITY june jurie 20 1864 EDITOR DESETt ET NEWS SIR A few days ago we paid a vist to the garden of br george D watt tb the object of our oar visit was tag to learn further particular particulars a in relation to the extent to which the excellente Excel lenta enoy efty had bad been cultivated the present year ear we were informed that the family had ma been picking every day for over two weeks hut but notwithstanding the best were gone we faw taw the th crop was a very abundant nt one que and the berries a tolerable good size ilze we therefore selected four berries of that variety measured and anti weighed them one measured six inches in circumference the others four and nd a hal halt f inches each and the four weighed two and a halt half ounces we are of opinion that it if wa we had visited this garden one week sooner we could have found twenty strawberries that would have weighed a pound more anon arion L S hemenway LEVI JOHN joun V longa LONG fruit committee DESERET AGRI agricultural agriculture CULTURA L AND manufacturing SOCIETY the board of directors of this society met on saturday at 4 pm in the historians office president woodruff in the chair director vallace wallace reported that the implies cane setd sed bed sown at the gardens was backward that tha td planted ed lately which had bad been scalded and d soaked before planting wainow up and I 1 ahead of the previous plaiting piar ting in appearance the gardens generally looked favorable S L sprague thomas bullock thomas may Way maycock cock of this city and joseph E johnson of spring lake villa were appointed the flower committee committee for 1854 1884 1 the house for the gardener in course of erection at the gardens was reported nearly il finished the roof having been put on during the past week weel r sundry bills were read an and add d allowed the secretary was instructed to write to A M musser esq genera general I 1 agent and solicit his attention to the list of or names of those who had intimated their willing willingness gness to become life members mem berb bera and to furnish said slid agent with life membership certificates that he might it the same and collect the means at his earliest convenience board adjourned for two weeks attest ROBT ROUT L CAMPBELL secretary GETTING WATER TO ST GEORGE GLORGE we are pleased to learn that the agricultural pros peets ot at the citizens of st george are this I 1 season much improved they have bave hae cut a 1 tunnell lunnell through a point of the black ridge on I 1 the east side aide of the city by which means they have carried the water of the rio virgin on to about four tour hundred acres 0 of good land which id Is thereby brought 0 into cultivation we are glad of their success for foi the people of st george last yar year suffered a severe severs loss by the failure of water from the santa anta clara the thi high price of grain also for the last six months has told severely upon them as they were dependent on other settlements for tor their thir bread breadstuff stuffs s we hear of stout determination to raise cotton as much and more than before becote if possible and with it an addenda that the wheat and corn this year must be looked to also TUB nii MILITIA LITIA litra NORTH A correspondent I 1 sends ui us a report of the muster and inspection of the cavalry of davis davia county on last last saturday week and the same of weber and ind box I 1 elder counties on the monday following col I 1 merril menu of 0 davia davis and brig gen C IV west I 1 commanding weber and box elder were present on these occasions col burton is get git J f tinga thorough system of tactics introduced and a commendable arido in military efficiency I 1 is developing itself in the settlements |