Show I 1 SALT LAKE CITY june editor deseret news dear sir I 1 take the liberty of furnishing you with an extract on the best mode of trans erting orting the eggs of fish from the pen 0 of caste member of the french institute tuie tule anh and professor of the college of france after discussing other modes of transport he says very fine wet sand employed gloved alone is far preferable it should be e ilius thus used take a circular or oblong box made of very thin white wood such for example as are used for packing dried fri fruits fits then on the bottom of this box spread a bed of wet sand on this sand spread as many eggs as can lie together without touching one another in fact leave space between them that the second layer of sand will fill to 0 prevent the possibility of their pressing against one another then spread a second bed of wet sand and on this in like manner a second bed of eggs and so on till the box is filled entirely so that the lidwill lid iid will pres presa upon the sand band and prevent the movement of the the contents of the box A suitable box to carry eggs in this manner should not be more than four inches deep by eight or ten inches long for if the dimensions exceed this the weight of the sand will be too great for the eggs to bear salmon balmon and trout eggs fecundated undated fec artificially were put ay y berthat betzen at the enc inc end of december 1851 in a fir box filien filled with wet sand the box was then for nearly two months kept in a cold room but in which the temperature was never so low iona as freezing point after the lapse of that time the eggs were sent to me from mulhouse before taking them out I 1 dipped the box in water so that the sand it contained might be gradually moistened throughout dorbad forbad I 1 neglected this precaution they would have perished as did others not thus treated the box being then opened I 1 found them a little withered or wrinkled but placed in the hatching batching apparatus they soon retook their spherical form and a large number of them gave birth to young I 1 have given you this brief extract to the point should auy any of your readers wish to investigate the whole subject of fil fis culture ture cure the most from which I 1 ha have T extracted can be found in our territorial tor sri STI Libra ry fl L respectfully e speet fully H FINDLAY w i f m 11 att ST THOMAS tuomas plute pinto co jp arizona arizon may 14 1868 fel wel fri editor r deseret nema newa on oil noticing in one of our recent issues the question sali le r e could ouid be successfully grown 6 t e benches enches around your city or not that a few hints on the subject by one who has traveled through the grape regions of europe and has s made ade ado grape culture his speciality in this country might interest and benefit some of your numerous readers the subject being one of great range and complexity nothing complete can be attempted to bo be written about it until one or two more hearons give the numerous experiments now in progress a chance to develop thel respective merits of the various varieties modes of and manipulation of Iro product duct in this thia country grape culture has hai always engaged the best intellect of thena the nations tiong among aifong which the nobie noble vine has flourished and this being the case also in our day there is no doubt but that some one of the many men of ability who v 0 I 1 labor or at present in southern utah in making numerous experiments will in due time produce a complete work on this important industry aa As to the question in the NEWS the practical way of proving the admissibility of the lands mentioned for successful grape culture is one that may in my opinion be safely tried on a larger scale than the one suggested with varieties of vigorous habit of growth such as the concord catawba clinton and hartford prolific of american grapes and the fiber of hungary and the several varieties of the chasselas and fron of europe A grape vine is naturally at home in an arid atmosphere flourishing nourishing under ardent skies and bearing its rich loads of fruit to greatest perfection in an unclouded atmosphere mo sphere in all countries where the rainfall of the summer or growing season exceeds seven inches the vineyards can only be of second class quality and the years of failure outnumber those of success all along the northern shores of the mediterranean in portugal spain italy and greece the rainfall ot of the growing season is no more than in the valleys of these mountains and the annual crops have to be watered artificially and it is in those cou countries n tries where the best vines and raisins of the world are made if the winter moisture on your benches saturates the tha soil to the depth dept of five or six feet vines of one seasons season 8 growth of vigorous kinds may be planted with undoubted success As to the mode of the south european system of training one stem to the of one foot and there letting it form its spurs like the crown of a low standard tree will be in every respect the best the land should not have too steep a grade of descent on ou ac count of the rapid draining off of the moisture though a sunny exposure by a slight southern slope would fould DO no very de desirable si there is no reason why salt lake city and the surroundings surround inga of lake utah should not raise as good a grape as the regions of the upper rhine or the plains of central france and as to the profits of this culture there can be no doubt as there is not good grape country enough on the globe to ever spoil the market and the coming railroad will open the wide nield field of all the atlantic states to be supplied with the products of the vineyard from the west side of the rocky mountains the american varieties of grape should be discarded as soon as ds the tile european can be had or at any rate none but those above m mentioned en be retained of the european euro kinds there have none as yet done better with us here than the fiber hungarian garian gannan Rais Bais inand the blaek Black hamburgh they are hardy vigorous and excellent and the first would probably endure your winters without protection as a also aiso so very likely some of the chasselas which however I 1 have not been lo 10 long iong na enough in bearing to determine their merits yours respectfully DANIEL BONELLI N third st ST loius LOTUS mo june ath 1868 to the editor of the deseret mews news sir on the uit a sociable was given by the saints of the city presided over by elder D M stuart of ogden utah elder brown president lent of the U 8 mission was also present on the occasion the evenings entertainment was opened with prayer by elder D M stuart after which a number of songs comic seriocomic serio comic and sentimental also recitations and dialogues were given by the company no pains were vere spared by the committee to make the evening an agreeable one A stage ewas wag was erected with footlights and curtains and dresses for the di merent different characters were amply supplied a piano and violin was also engaged en forthe evening great credit is due to the saints for representing their religion respectably the ladles ladies and children mildren were nearly all attired in white adorned with ribbons and flowers in great profusion at ail an early hour I 1 in u the morning after b bt ing dismissed with prayer by eider elder brown the party broke up all evidently being well satisfied there were from to people present I 1 lam iam am sir yours faithfully W COPE the pro gramme furnished is a very lengthy one oue made up of some forty pieces consisting of songs recitations dialogues duets anthem anthems fl and songs song 5 comic and aud sentimental 1 and a foot font note at the thi bottom say says I 1 several other songs and reelta recitations tiona tlona will be given the cholee choice variety and fine selection of pieces comprising the evenings entertainment tain ment we have no doubt were sufficient to make the evening an agreeable one ED I 1 |