Show grasshoppers AND CROPS THERE areno are no grasshoppers worth speaking of this valley north as far as hamptons Ham along the line of rail except that there was a nwart just beyond brigham city on sunday july 22 12 in cache vailey valley they are gone taking a northeastern north eastern course into the mountains the settlers feel great 11 1 rell reil relieved eved from their thankful that all the crops were not devoured by the numberless and lind voracious insects in bear valley there are many of them yet though on the wing much of the time in that valley they have been severe on the crops ily will be perhaps a fourth or a third of or a cro ero crop 1 small grain perhaps near half a crop the range has also been badly used by the hie pests pasts and the settlers will bo be puzzled how to carry their stock safely through the coming winter an wj that is a lamous famous stock country some bome persons persona are thinking or of disposing of all hit their animals that thai they they may conel conclude ulde tide they cannot d apinter winter wilter successfully next eason keason fc blid aud next winter in thau that region it is anticipated will be a rather hard une I 1 bear lake valley hag has suffered more from the grasshoppers iila than 0 o cache valley has this season thou though ai the latter has been seriously ravaged by them in the settlements tle ments in cache little damage 0 lias been done and there will be a 1 large laege amount of grain raised in many mau places the crops look very good but in others they thy are ie very thin A As a rul rui rule ruie e that well watered valley Is very dry this year the streams having been lower than usual mutual speaking in general term terms sand and willi the exception partied above it may way be said the gras shop pers pars amm are gone from froin balt bait lake city to ramp lons ions and logan and franklin on the line of travel on the earth and lu in the heavens above BO so far as the t 3 e can cau leach they are nowhere ta to be seen been in quantity and in most moat places on ou that route no specimens are uro left behind in this thia valley the crops appear to be injured very little ba but the hills bills at frampt hampton ons s ardro are aro unusually bare and brown biown and the cattle cuttle thereabout there about have a comi ively poor time indeed the mils nills of Cach cache ejust just now are very bare and uncommonly brown browns dry aud and desert debert looking U Y ii hn the broad sweep of mead meadow 0 W or ar prairie between beaw een mendon and lo 10 gan gun usually laden with hay and i immensely attractive at this thib time of year hus bus but little nay hay or grass in luany many parts of it this season much ut the hayland hay bay land lund being not worth mowing rhe the rho hills and benches enu duerally Kue rally raily on the western side of the valley have suffered heavily crops from logan northward through the fields nelds i of that city hydo hyde park par ism smithfield richmond klch Kich mond hmoud and along the fout foot of alia ilia j jha he mountains to franklin are in most platea plat plit es good though lna ina num lee lec bec bee ut vt thin yields appear the ibe gras grass grams is rather light through utah and salt aalt lake valleys but it ia A very light in cache III lu that county there may be a third of a rop crop of hay cut mis this year aud and b half elf eif alf tu to two thirds of a crop ot of giam i sonie of athe ahe latter after ia is already harvested much aluch of the this corn in cache loble as well wull as much of the corn in laffe lake and utah counties bucche allut the grass griss on the ranges in cliche is gone gorge apparently beyond this year tear unless soaking jug ing rains come before long iong for most of tiie the little which the grasshoppers have left is dried up or is faba the range around franklin for instance looks pi pitiably ti poor just now in comparion comparison with its appear nce in a favorable bie tie beason season rqn ili in many of the pastures andray and hay bay lauds lands of cache andin and in places in this valley kalley that detestable weed barley barles erss or as some lome term it foxtail fox tail tall grass has attained to great prominence which ull fa farmers must be sorry to see A problem with the cache valley people is how and where whore to winter their numerous cattle and it is a various aa reou s problem lern to many of the set tiers As lo 10 grain potatoes ete etc there will be large crops rained in the territory this year larger than usual lu iii salt lake utah and san pete vai val vallesa leya lesa eya and a large amount in Ca cheValley caebe cache valley no notwithstanding the grag grasshoppers shoppers |