| Show FALL FAUL FA fall UL SOWING IN years past owing to our isolated po pa ion lon ion lon a good crop ot of grain especially wheat was of the utmost importance to our entire population in fact absolutely essential to our preservation in view of the early completion of the great highway 0 between the two ocea oceans lyns and the consequent ease case with which in case of necessity supplies of grain could be transported ran sported from the great grain growing states staten of the east and nd from california this necessity is seemingly not so glaringly parent apparent tp but upon either east or west we cannot rely with any degree of safety the locusts have during the past season made their appearance and committed great havoc in in several localities in the east and in coming seasons they may be called to pass through an experience similar to that which the people of utah were called to pass through in 1855 6 and again in 1867 8 when our crops as we all ail know now suffered materially from the locusts or grasshoppers indications at present for the next years crops are much more favorable than they were last fall for the crops of the present season the myriads myri ads of locusts busts in many localities of our territory were laying their en eggs engs gs at this time last I 1 a is t year giving all warning of what might mig h t be expected during the present season those indications have been filled to the letter the locusts appearing in greater numbers than ever before seen since the settlement of this territory by byth the ewhite white man at the present time we hear but little of them and with the exception of one or two localities where it is said they are lay laying ng their eggs the territory is about free from their presence still although indications are so much more in favor of good crops for next season it will be well to adopt every measure within our reach that would seem in the least to promise success to the labors of the husbandman there is one thing of which all our farmers may avail themselves if they are so disposed which under present circumstances when to say the least there is not only a possibility but a probability babi lity of another visitation of locusts might result in great good to the whole of the inhabitants of the territory th that at is the fall sowing of wheat the advantages of sueh such a course are so appa rent that it is scarcely necessary y to make any comment on du the subject su abject and the season promises to be very favorable for all kinds of outdoor out door labor past experience has proven that the ravages of or the grasshoppers on grain sown in the fall are not near so destructive as on grain sown in the spring the reasons for this are very obvious grain sown in the fall gets such a start that by the time these destructive insects are able to do much mischief it is so far matured that they can damage it but slightly with grain sown in inthe the spring spra ing it is otherwise the hoppers hopper sl and it germinate together and by the time the young grain is in blade it furnishes a plentiful supply of good food to the voracious army of bread destroyers this was the tho case on their first visitation in the spring of 1855 and the tho same has been the case more or less with grain sown in the spring for the past dast two years and even in cases where it has not been completely de troyed by them it has been infected and blighted bup h ted with their poisonous virus T the he plentiful showers with which a kind providence has favored us this spring have averted this evil to some extent as in both grain anna aria fruit they have washed away the tho poison the in sects left bud but still when once infected although washed away bo both t h grain an and fruit have bave been fernian permanently ent I 1 y injured some soine may object to P F a all ali I 1 I 1 sowing on account of the risk of grai gral grain n thus sown 7 being winter killed of this there is not a very great risk our supply of enow now in the winter season is is generally pretty plentiful and when such is the case all risk is obviated obviated otvia ted there is this risk however to run but the addan are so evident that it may well be taken if even the grain sown this fall should be winter killed which is exceedingly improbable the loss would not be very great and the losers would still enjoy the bame same chances of success in spring sowing as others some may think that the completion of the railroad would remove all risk buethe but the reasons already assigned clearly ly show that this is not the case in fact faetche the teachings of the servants of god for many maby years past ought to be sum bum clent to show to the latter day saints taht it is not to the outs outside de world they must ever look for their bread but under the blessings of god entirely to themselves and that instead of depending on the world numbers of them will yet turn to utah not only for peace and safety but for bread to preserve their ahelf lives this is a matter of great importance and we would urge upon all whose labors on the fhe railroad or other duties will not prevent to give prompt attention to this subject and to sow BOW a wide breadth of fall grain |
