Show I 1 IMPROVED WE wr had the pleasure of examining a seed drill on saturday which was imported I 1 by henry W Nals naisbitt bitt esq of the firm of naisbitt J Ss hindley for br orrawell Orri well simonds monds Bi of payson it is the first grain drill that has haa been brought to the territory and if successful in its 0 operations orations erat ions lons as we think it will be machines erines of that kind will enter into general er aluse use this one makes eight furrows there is a space of eight inches between the furrows and they can be made shallow or deep and the grain be drilled thickly or otherwise to suit the taste of the farmer A man with a span of horses can BOW sow an au acre in an hour these machines have been found to answer an excellent purpose in the east and there is scarcely room to doubt their success here as having the grain in drills will be more favorable for irrigation than having it broadcast during the first year or two of our settlement here when grain was scarce and it was an object to obtain as heavy a yield as possible from a given amount of seed there were some persons who drilled drilled their wheat the method used was rather primitive and they had only small patches but the yield was wag remarkably large and BO so far as we knew at the tho time tie the the experiment was successful the only drawback being that it was too slow alow a process to admit of large fields being seeded in that manner but buttala thib this machine makes the work of drilling very easy by the completion of the railroad we are goin going t to 0 be brought into competition witha with 0 our u r neighbors east and west in all branches of production and manufacture in view of this our mechanics must arrange matters in such a manner that they can command the trade of the territory if their methods of labor and manufacturing are slow and expensive they must avail themselves of machinery and the various aids which men in their bra branches aches of business use in the east and west for if they do not produce as good an article at as low a price as it can be brought here for from other places they will be likely to find the market stocked from abroad and their wares will go a begging we have men among us though they are not numerous who if they can make twenty five cents centa by brin bringing ing an article from abroad do not hesitate hesitate to send for it in preference to purchasing a home manu fractured article of the same quality to control this market therefore those who manufacture and produce must do so at rates so favorable that nothing in their line produce i or manufactured elsewhere can cau find sale here except at a loss the tariff on freight brought from the east or west answers as good a lk purpose ose obe as a protective duty and we wili will will ae be highly culpable if we do not take the necessary steps to supply ourselves from our own productions and manufactures fac tures to the extent of our power not only must the mechanic and manufacturer do this but the farmer also it was only this morning that a farmer friend whose extensive eions were encased in A a fine suit of el othes clothes asked us to guess how many oa oats ets its be he had paid for the suit we tri trl tried ed but guessed several oats too many he had only paid six bushels for the clothes and then had neatly a dollar over and ana the merchant with whom he traded told him that oats were not so high by six bits a bushel as they had been these high prices do well weli wellbor for the present and an d we are glad to see the farmers sell their products BO so advantageously but every thinking man among them i is s convinced that if good ci chops aps ops are raised east and west these prices can continuo continue not for grain can bo be brought by the railroad and laid down here nt at lower figures daures our farming must be done more systematically mati nati cally eally than it hasl ha been and every improved machine that wi will 1 I I 1 facilitate the cultivation of the soil and lessen the cost of producing grain must be brought into use we can with the blessing of the lord compete with other sections in the production of fruits vegetables and grain our boll soil yields well to the careful husbandman in this territory mother earth has been a beneficent parent to us she has yielded of her strength without stint and we have not failed to draw heavily upon her but now greater pains should be taken to restore to her those elements of which in many places she begins to feel the lack our farmers must take greater r care in iti and summer fal fai lowing ing than they have been in the habitor habit of doing and thus preserve the fecundity of our soil |