Show tho tio xi 1 seasons s and S i 1 I SPRING LAKE VILLA ta march 21 1874 editor ddll r news our usual time for putting in early seeds has come but the snow came earile nir first fir stand and still lierde lies lles deep over our nield field and gardens ME the sun I 1 however ly Is shining again and we still stin hope that joyful spring will soon scoon begin to claim her ber dominion our little settlement has passed the winter pleasantly our young folks attending school taught by A W babbitt found through its whole term no evening that they did not meet for educational or social improvement our sabbath meetings and sunday schools are well attended and are both lively and interesting good peace and cheerfulness seem to prevail in our oui little settlement and all are anxiously waiting to speed cesped tile the plough B F jonnson JOHNSON u CEDAR CITY i march 15 1874 Editon deseret news idt I 1 t lond WINTER ik k ond one of the most protrActed winters wo we havo havia had for many yearn ye yearn arn are since sinde the first week in de cn coniber b i we wd have scarcely had a eek scarcely a day without a snow storm no doubt douba much good will result to our fields and range I 1 can hear much complaint of coughs and cold colds the result of the cold damp weather and we shall all bo be glad when spring time has come again NUMBER OF FAMILIES cedar numbers about one hundred families who are in very prosperous and self sustaining circumstances circumstance cum stances stance and the people fully appreciate their condition knowing full fuli well thau that there are aro but few e communities omm unities who can sing with a more realizing sense from the notebook note book of life haid hald times come again nomore no more FARMING 3 ac we have havo 1800 acres of land under fence our last years yearns crops of small grain were much diminished owing to the dryness of the season in the fall of 1872 there were raised in this settlement seventeen thousand bushels of wheat and barley last fall there were ra raised ased ten thousand sand bushels being a decrease of seven thousand bushels still there was plenty raised for our own wants want Q and some to spare for those who were less fortunate the potatoe crop was near nearly y double what we wa had raked hitherto in this place our fruit was almost destroyed by the late frosts except a very few apples and some currants we are aro anticipating a nine fine crop of fruit the comin coming 9 season thinking that the late spring will bae bac backen ken hen the blooming of our fr fruit lt tre esso that they will thereby miss the late frosts SHEEP HUSBANDRY tiie the people in cedar take great interest in the tho raising 0 of f sheep realizing full well what a blessing it is to see their children clad in good homemade clothes the buying of store goods to clothe a family is a hard task to many a head of a family causing him to rack his brains not to know where the money goes but where it is to come from poul foul four pour years ago we formed a sheep coop co op herd previous to that time each owner counted his sheep by the head and had his own ear mark now we count by the dollar last liast year we sheared 16 lbs ibs of wool or 4 lbs ibs 9 oz per bead head head and allowing eight persons to each family there would be lbs ibs of wool to each family or 20 ibs its to every man woman and child in cedar in the ewe ee flock numbering last year 2100 of which had no lambs there were on the of september the thie day on which the lambs were valued 1888 lambs after deducting all losses from accident and disease on the of april the ewes began to lamb iamb A few days previous our manager T webster divided the ewes into small flocks of about four hundred each and put a responsible man and toy with each flock when from nifty fifty 10 seventy five ewes have lambea lambed in each flock they are withdrawn and put in a flock by themselves thus giving astill a still better chance to those ewes that have yetto yet to lamb iamb at lambing time very easy to lose hundreds of lambs in in trying to save a few hundred dollars expense oar sheep are herded on oh the mountains in the summer and in the valley in winter and we never corral at night the herdsmen are hired by the day they change their camps about ivery every three weeks ly by this means keeping the sheep clean and dry there are at the present date sheep in burco operative herd or an average of four to each family by careful herding good management and the blessings of a bountiful Providence our sheep are ire kept in good condition STOCK RAISING if we do not make all the butter and cheese that we need and much to sell it certainly is our own fault for there are in our stock herd head of cows and at least oj 03 0 03 more ivore for home use summer and winter making a total of or ail an average of eight cows to each family in tile the settlement we have not been as wise wise vise as we might have been in the raising of stock thinking more moro of numbers than quality but at the present time there is a great desire to improve our stock we are also aiso establishing a public dalry dairy STEAM SAW MILL lumber being one of the great wants of the place and there thero not being bein gany any made nearer than twenty miles necessitate ng tile the expenditure of bf much time and means in purchasing and hauling it a year ago this spring the brethren united their means together and bought a steam saw mill and after making new roads and other improvements the mill was put up last fall and sawed feet of lumber thus supplying one of our most urgent wants at home 1 which will aid much in building up and beautifying cedar city tho the beautiful shade trees that make our streets so cool and pleasant in summer have become so large that I 1 see some of the brethren are cutting every other one down using the tile branches for firewood ou our r whole surrounding circumstances remind one forcibly of the lines of pope happy the man whose whoso wish and care caro A few paternal acres acrea bound content to breathe his ats native air on his bis owe ground whose herds with milk whose fields with bread whose flocks supply him with attire whose ti trees ees in summer yield him shade la in winter I 1 re no wonder that the latter day saints ints pray that president young and his associates mayi mami mayl live jye iye many years when they see th the thousands thousand S of happy homes and grateful hearts made so by their wise counsel and fatherly care SCHOOLS ac sour our sunday school under the superintend superintendence u enc ene or of samuel leigh is doing much uc goo good to the e young in n teaching ching ehing t them iem lem the tile principles les of life and nd truth from t the e bible nible ible ibie book nook oo 00 of mormon doctrine an and covenants juvenile instructor and the the catechism for children wo we have two good day schools 0 one ne under the tuition of brother the other under ann anu sstewart our dramatic association have spent much time this winter in endeavoring to amuse and interest the ing played several times our new meeting house is yet in statu quo J having the foundation dug and the bricks made I 1 think ere long we shall be able to complete it knowing in that there is not anything that ai adds ds more to the credit and value of a city than good school and meeting houses places of learning and worship respectfully THOMAS oho ohe oil ogi editor deseret jews many inquiries by letter arial and verbally having been made to me by my friends on the above subject I 1 beg leave to answer them brie briefly y through your columns our people generally believe that olive oil will not congeal thisina this is a mistaken notion every kind of olive oil from the coarsest to the purest quality is liable to congeal under the ini Int luence influence of a cold atmosphere I 1 know this by an experience of fifty years I 1 have imported directly from r france rance six different brands of pure olive oil every one of which congeals but among these brands brand there is one from bordeaux a and another from marseilles so ver very s superior in quality and of suc such sueh a admirable e transparency that they congeal only under tile the influence of severe cold coid this is the truth the plain truth oil on that matter whence comes the best olive oil I 1 answer that the district of aix in the south of france department des bouches du rhone bhone produces the very best in th the world the localities of coudoux e salon and Pelis Pellis sanne in this thia district are ate so well known for the excellence of their product that every drop of their oil is purchased beforehand every year for lor tile the tables of the monarchs and rich bankers of europe can genuine olive oil be purchased in the sto stores res of this city I 1 really believe e not a tingle single drop the only real ol 01 olive I 1 ve olli oll oil I 1 have tasted here liere was an italian brand in small I 1 asks tile the various low priced brands of so called olive oil which are sold in almost every store in this tilis city are manufactured in the states and without exception I 1 believe they are mere inere counterfeits therefore brethren buy no more melted M elded eldea lardon any other such nasty stuff stumm for anointing the siek sick respectfully LOUIS A bertrand bertrad 0 0 the tile palatka fla merald herald says that flotilda has been talked of more romantically and examined less accurate accurately fi than any other section lof i of country oil on the continent 1 J jocularities A wisconsin legislator wants railroad passengers weighed and charged accord accordingly bigly it is getting petting into the churches churche now the sexton of a baptist church in troy has walked off with 2000 of the pew rents A milwaukee dry goods clerk wears a shingle under his shirt front to keep the wrinkles in subjection jec tion the rev bev J C 0 leonard of the church of tile the unity chicago says that the rey rev E P hamm hammond ond the revivalist is a pious pious fraud harvard says that enquire is right and yale thinks it asin is inquire 11 we ne think acquire is is I 1 pretty near the thin tiling detroit free 2 rec ree frem press A band of ohio women gathered in front of a lawyers lawyer s office by mistake and prayed and sang hait hall an hour before benore they learned that they had been throwing away their time it ls is is 19 calculated that their prayers have had any effect under eighteen months A man in south hero vt who had a gun which scat scatter scatted scattered ted teb shot badly saw an advertisement in a city paper offering to send information of a method of preventing such scattering for fifty cents ile he forwarded the money and received instruction to put yin lin in on one shot |