| Show THE an fn IF 11 T oi OF utan WE have before us samples of raisins raised at st george which were given to president B young while whilo there by elder joseph E johnson ejohnson who produced them from vines one and two years old from the cuttings we had the pleasure of visiting i elder johnsons gaiden while we were wr e at bt st george and words cannot express the gratification which we experienced in passing through it and witnessing what he had accomplished with the exercise of excellent taste and untiring industry he has made a little paradise where not more than three years ago there was a dry barren and apparently worthless piece of land his collection of flowers and fruits fruita is exceedingly fine and bf great value every variety of grape i that he could hear of and that he hm has thought would be useful he has imported an and d he is experimenting with them as well as with hybrids of his own production to learn conclusively which are the kinds best adapted for that country the samples of raisins before us are from the aher agos the white while muscatel cat elthe eithe tho tha white malaga mataga and ana the canadian chiefs chief any of which would sell in this as well as any other market as an excellent raisin we under understood while there that the tasting committee of bt st george had pronounced in favor of the zher fiber raisin an n preference to the others but while admitting the excel excellence excellente lonke lenke of this raisin president young and several of the company who tasted the samples evinced a preference for the white malaga raisin all these are as good dried fruits as aa can cam be imported from any country and yet they have only taken one and two years from the cuttings to produce them here is a source of revenue to the people of our southern settlements and they should devote attention to it this fruit should be produced insufficient in sufficient quantities to supply the entire territory and its importation from frota abroad should cease already raisins from rom nom the california mission grap grapp are gre are produced to considerable extel extent hut but this grape does not answer so well as bs the varieties ri re ferrea ferreo ferre to above the mission grape makes good wine and for that purpose will doubtless be widely cultivated but the oler olen varieties make better raisins ald and good wine also figs also are brought here from abroad and extensively sold they are a healthy fruit frait and their use in our dry climate is attend attended edwith with excellent effects they are being produced in the settlements south of the rim of I 1 the basin and we see no reason why our market marke t should not be entirely supplied from that source the english walnut and the almond also grow finely and are likely to yield heavily in that country they can be cultivated with but little labor and their fruit can be readily sold in this and other markets the attention which is being paid at the present time to diet by our community will undoubtedly cause all these fruits to be in demand in fact until fruit is plentifully produced at home s and placed within the reach of all classes we can not be entirely successful in bringing about the change in habits of living which is contemplated already the production of pork as an article of diet dielia is greatly reduced in this territory yet butter has been so dear and difficult to obtain at any price that recourse has been had to lard for shortening and this has been mainly imported neither lard nor butter answer well for this purpose but pure olive oil would various opinions are entertained in the southern part of the territory about the raising of the olive tree the general impression being that it can be successfully raised in the garden of brother john 0 naile nalle at To kerville ae we baw saw an olive tree growing which was very thrifty brother naile feels sanguine that olive trees will grow in that region and he is making ca calculations laula on propagating them we have seen them growing and bear beart ing fruit at los angeles and vicinity california in a climate no more favorable than that of southern utah and we share in the opinion ot of bro naile that they can be produced in our settlements the olive is a hardy tree and very tenacious of life for we read that after the earth had been immersed in hi the waters of the flood the dove which noah sent forth from the tho theale aik alk returned bearing an olive leaf plucked off if it can be acclimatized in our southern settlements it should receive attention for there is no people in the world who would consume more olive oil in proportion to their numbers than the latter day saints if they could get the pure article in the countries w where the olive grows the oil is 13 used as generally and in the same butter and cream are with us these trees flourish in the rocky mountains of pa palestine lestina lestin 6 and they are beautiful long lived and very fruitful among the ancient jews the consumption of this oil ou was i ous the lamps which we were kept con scantly burning in the tabernacle and temple were fed by it and it was an article of exportation with them solomon gave gallons of oil yearly to the tyrian hewers of timber in lebanon and probably an equal quantity to the kinstof tyre A himself m a the jews also traded traded with th their air oil in the mart of tyre and sent it to egypt its cultivation as well as that of cotton I 1 the raisin grape the fig aua ana anc ane other southern productions should jece deceive ive ivo attention from our who live south of the rim elm it strikes us as being the surest and safea f way they can adopt of securing their theirl tem p coralin independence dependence abd and helping forward the great cause which is equal ly cearto ne near arto tb the heart of every lattera latter ay saint whether living in the xo north atu riu or south 1 |
