| Show AG tim THE spring thus far though unfavorable ansome in some respects for gardens has been an excellent one for wheat and other cereals and grasses we have had cool weather and occasional rains and falls of snow which have kept the ground moist and obviated the necessity of irrigation to bring the grain up according to present appearances in salt lake and the adjoining counties heavy crops of grain vegetables and fruit may be expected no grasshoppers have made their appearance as yet and unless they migrate from some other section after they commence to fly the fields and gardens will not be troubled by them this season farms situated on the benches or in places where the soil bakes on the surface require spring rains to make a good crop and owners of such farms are rejoicing in the fall of snow and rain that we to have had this spring in some portions or cache and sanpete coun counties M grasshoppers have hatched batched out as numerously aa as at any previous season discouraged at the prospect of raising crops there some farmers have engaged land to cultivate in other settlements which are free from this dreadful pest so we have heard and have determined to summer fallow their own fields the grasshopper visitation has had the effect to largely increase the cultivation of peas in this county it was noticed that peas suffered less from the ravages of this destructive insect than any other field crop it hab haa been the only dependence for many farmers for one or two years back furnishing an excellent article of food fond for their stock and being easily exchanged for wheat etc for their own households use peas are being extensively sown again this spring and they promise to become one abne ot our standard crops all who have used them as feed are satisfied that for this purpose they are hard to beat in connection with grasshoppers it is well to remark that probably there is no people in the world who could have had such a pest destroying their crops i tf w and the fruits of their la labor b or for r so many years in succession with fewer disastrous results what farming district in the united untied states could have lost four successive years crops and the farmers not be ruined yet there are several settlements in this territory w which aich have thus suffered and we do not suppose that there is a mortgaged farm in any of them and all the settlements tle ments have suffered if not the total los losa of crops for that period at least a considerable portion of them of course where crops have thus been destroyed year after year in an agricultural community I 1 the effect upon the circumstances stances of the people must be very serious but the point we think wonderful is that they have been able to live at all behave heard of no suffering for actual necessaries though many doubtless have felt themselves straitened in other directions this exemption from want has been chiefly due to the counsel which has been strenuously and constantly urged upon the people of these mountains to store up their grain while many have neglected to give heed to this counsel others have carefully husbanded hus banded their grain and these supplies ha have e been of vast benefit to the community at large I 1 THE domestication of english sparrows in the east bast has been a cause of frequent for the thorough manner in which they have waged war upon troublesome insects accounts reach us however which lead us to conclude that their presence is not alto alton i gether beneficial they are suspected of destroying the fruit blossoms in orchards large quantities of blossom buds are found with the chits caits or hearts picked out leaving nothing but the outside covering it is the first time that injury to fruit bearing trees has been noticed so early inthe in the season and the sparrows are suspected of doing the mischief THE tyre rural home speaking of beans as a crop bays says ra in some localities in western new now york the cultivation of beans as a field crop has become a leading interest with the farmer many of our most enterprising P and successful cultivators are 91 giving ving the same special attention to this as a market crop that was formerly given to the cultivation of wheat and and on soils well adapted to the crop perhaps with equally good results every crop or plant that grows has its natural soil in which it thrives best and in which it can be most profitably cultivated and no one is more peculiar in this respect than the bean crop IN ix california gardeners and farmers in raising cabbage are troubled with the cabbage worm A correspondent of the pacific rural rufer press has communicated a remedy thinks is sure destruction to them wherever it can be made attainable it was tried last year by a gardener near Down leville with perfect success although his neighbors all around had their plants all destroyed he simply turned a stream of cold water upon the plants through an open hose under large pressure so that the mere force of the water drove them from the leaves and so beat them into the loose soil that they were drowned or otherwise killed by thousands two or three applications of the kind are sufficient to get entirely rid of them none however but certain kinds of cabbage plants will stand euch ench rough usage he cultivated a variety which is remarkably hard in this particular and which is supported on a very strong stem irrigation is receiving considerable attention in california at present we learn from the pacific rural dress press that the talaveras calaveras Cala veras and san joaquin water company lately incorporated propose building a canal 8 feet deep 40 feet wide at the top and 30 feet wide at the bottom from the mokelumne river biver near Ca manche to bear creek san ban joaquin joa UI county thence to the calace ras wirer wiver biver river and thence to stockton it is claimed that the canal will irrigate at least acres of land also that the merced irrigation canal is being bein constructed work having being co commenced in february this is to be 50 feet wide with a fall of one foot to the mile and to extend from the mouth of the merced merced river biver to bear creek near the lone willow where the latter stream will be dammed to farns creek from a point high upon this creek a canal will be cut along the hillside to a point about five miles above snelling snell Bnell ing to the merced the san ban gorgonio canal company of san ban bernardino county h halsa 01 been incorporated it proposes is to divert and distribute the water ks flowing ging into san gorgonio pass pasa I 1 two large sheep raisers of tulare county california have had a friendly contest asimo the wool producing qualities of their respective flocks each bhear sheared d ewes owes and those yielding the greatest number of pounds was to carry off the prize there names were J A patterson and B F A certificate has been signed and published by four persons certifying to the fact thai they assisted in iri shearing she ring sacking and weighing the wool from of J A Patter sona sons owes which aggregated pounds THEr THE an annual fitial aggregate of wool raised in california has reached pounds or 10 tons sufficient to load ten first class ships if it was all sent away the rural press says I 1 if anything like this rate of it increase is continued for ten years longer our annual aggregate will reach not less than pounds or tons equal to the aggregate product of the united states at the present time from present indications past experience and the well known facilities for wool growing in this state there is every reason to believe that our wool product will actually reach pounds inside of ten years and about equal in value our present gold crop CHEESE is an article of food that should be manufactured in abundance in this territory we should not be under the necessity of importing it from other places to supply our home demand A writer in the national livestock live stock journal urges its more extensive use as an article of food and assigns a number of reasons for this litia it is the cheapest of all the animal f 0 dl vs eat 2 it requires ifo rio no fuel or time nor for cooking 3 Ther there els eis is no waste in bone which is the case cage with all other animal food 4 it is easy and safe of transportation 5 it is always ready to be set upon the table in JA A moments time in cabe case of unexpected company or in case we are obliged to eat a hasty meal which often is the case with men of business IT ii pays as well to card a cow as it does all who have fairly tried if it nind find great benefit from the operation many people would laugh at the ide idea a of using wing a currycomb curry comb or card in the cow stable but the practice is attended with the best of result results s especially in the winter THE writer of the ogden farm papers in the american agriculturist says he hardly knows which makes him the more glad the rise of the essex or the fall of the chester varieties of pigs for a considerable experience and a much laore more extensive observation have convinced him that of all mongrel bred inix mix blooded brutes that ever had a name given them the cheaters are entitled to the palm he has three or four of them now he says bred from parents not akin purchased from the best breeders bleeders bre eders in chester cheater county and warranted pure among which are clear traces of at least hait half a dozen distinct porcine races the only quality in which they are alike is the size of their ears cars there seems to be an effort of nature on their part to prove how much ear a given amount of pig can carry there are many animals sold doubtless as chester WhItes which are bogus chester county is said to be scoured by drovers hucksters ac for pigs pigs that are not black that is all that is required ired of course where such are sold dissatisfaction and disgust must follow we saw a litter of improved chester cheater whites the other day in the pens of hon joseph A young that were perfect beauties they were as handsome as pictures and had bad the marked of p pure ure blooded animals SHOOTING TING AT the tho cheyenne of the 2 goth chronicles another ano ther shooting affair at that place which occur ed the night previous A man named became jealous of a young girl gir named julia julla cunningham with whom he h had been living illicitly took something to t drink to stimulate himself and shot her in n the breast while she was in bed inflicting a i wound wouna which will likely prove fatal at A va C 1 WANTED of elizabeth ellzabeth brown eown who left the chelcea branch of the th Ion dori conference in the spring of 1865 1863 her father john brown is anxious to ti hear hoar from her hen address him at 5 york terrace lower park paik road noad colney hatch middlesex millennial star |
