Show POINTS ON FARMING KINGSTON flute i chudly february 7 1897 I 1 have read with much interest and appreciation the tb remarks made by friend orange warner of moab I 1 see there here to la still too much careless ea relesa farming going on among uv ae wuen when I 1 see aee out oar admere bringing their grain to the grist mill I 1 rod flod great diversity diver eity in the quality and of the wheat brought to be ground into flour dour some borne is in very casad but the majority bows bow careless sea in the aeed owe oats black an and white barley black seed aeed lucero peas weeds and what not is justly the ault ru leand and yet ami 0 f t them blame the lillei miller for not giving as 8 much boob fluur to tue us bushel as it their heir wheat wad wa clean A tow few give him blessings blessing over the lots left shoulder boulder and even call cali him a sneak thief blot whereas it if they would coolly consider things banga they ought to see ee that they themselves themi theM elves selven are to blame and are robbing themselves veo by their oare leoen and liow how much better it would be it if they would take the trouble to clean their seed eed as aa thoroughly an aa can be done remembering the wood give gire forth teo son forty and even many hundred times more seeds to we plant than chaa wheat and that when woods grow in a field bold bey take the he nourishment that should hauld go to the plants we wish to grow A good deal of carelessness la Is also alio apparent in the selection aele clion of me best beet seeds hoge here lot let me remind of some remor ksor of brigham young on OD the sube ct in ID a discourse die coune delivered by him to lo the sixties in we old tab er nacle in suit bait lake city he asia among other things he used to go with some members rne moura of hr his family after fter fant himself with an apron in which was waa a large pocket and a pair ot 01 orr they went their wheat field picking out too best looking ears eara of wheat aud and carrying it home to be dried and threshed by to be used as ae toed aea for or the next crop he said laid wey they began with giving the common acre yield 1 I 1 believe twenty or twenty five so an acre and by ket ping the same our oare ul year yar by year he ended by having aeed giving over ninety bushels of wheat to the acre at too toe time he made that discourse what he has haa doue daius others can do and beat that too loo but proper care and attention must be paid to we the business buel nees continuing on the same strains strain I 1 will relate a fact which was told me by a public officer of the town of st bibles in dwile rland where I 1 was learning the trade of carpenter in 1851 he told me he had bad a son who went to australia and from there sent bent to his father it a letter in which was wae enclosed some grains of a curious egyptian wheat through a hole in the letter most of the grains were lost only about nine were lei leit t The sewert carefully planted by the window it proved to be a seven stalked an and many branched wheat each bach grain planted gave nearly two thousand gralli aralue of seed these were planted the the next season but gave only about from nine DIUS to twelve hundred seeds each aoh borne bome of it was distributed to friends and the balance was own bro weast and gave only four or aag lit bundled indred seeds eed a each in brier brief that wheat was waa sown year by year till at last it gave lew less and lose leee every year bud aud at last gave only the same quantity as the common when used lu in my old country it seems to we me the reason was had they been care ul about selecting the be best and planted it away from any other kino of wheat the result would have boon been quite different I 1 am mot ot we the opinion tuat that it if some one were to devote devoie a little more time lane to selecting we the seed in ID a careful manner and planting it by itself and keeping ori on your year by year she be would be bure astonish even the mosi mool skeptical nt bt that la Is not all the land must be titivated tiva tedi and enri enriched cued by abiog lag added to it the elements that tute the plants lato we wish to grow ur of young generation have begea es and 00 opportunities that we their elders elden and were wholly lacking in they have their high schools and especially their agricultural colleges coil egea woore where they can learn learo many things oi of which we w were wholly ignorant such as chemistry botany bud and the science deuce ei knowing the be elements ele menta and tion oi of the he dlf dif lerent terent plants olaaf geology etc how many usage when I 1 wen weal L through my garden have I 1 wished tu to know ot 0 what elements the grouns was wai som composed posed what were lacking and what were needed to he be rid of chody or in part to in order to raise certain cripi in a paying way truly knowledge Is power when intelligently applied app lieu still I 1 have found that hat a little hide knowledge te Is a dangerous dau geroir thing detaube when misapplied the results are often ahoo raging and even di die a natto 6 we need not be die j cou raged l must be our mottu as aa alai chere la in no excel excellence lenco without labor to study so aa for far as aa we can and compete compare re and mot keep on an in like same ame old ruts rute juat juga because buiere have ruu run in the me some ame groove before us ua As A a general rule hereabout very low few of our farmers are taking care ur or even using their manure they plow their heir luau land and raise crops year abter year vear without civi g back to poor starved mother earth which they so ao and cruelly rob ut ul lue llie elements elemenia guiou she ebe guve gave iso BO goner geuer bously I 1 have also noticed that hardly a any dy use their straw for a bedding for their borses and callie toey faey let them stand bland on their own excrement all winter ald when I 1 remonstrated wita some ome or of them they would gravely assert that it would poll the manure to have hare it m axed aed with straw whereas it Is IB the experience of every practical sound gendle farmer that it makes the manure better by keeping anti and absorbing the volatile elements element ucb such as ae t rm hydrogen etc inside include and keeping it ia more moist in thin dry climate of ours cure I 1 feel that more might be said on the same subject and others relating to te it ouch euch as aa cutting hay bay raising railing carro carrota tip and beets to lead feed horses ana cows etc most people are cutting their heir bay especially the lucern when it to nearly past blooming bloomi Dg it not actually so ao and ana the stalks atalka have become so 0 o woody as aa to be of little value as aa food for stock block except to keep them from starving I 1 have raised beets beef and carrots eight or ton ten years yeara past to feed my cows with and my neighbors seems to think that old ned is a queer old crank they keep on the old way of sending their cattle on the hills billa to tarve starve all the winter and keep only such an aa they absolutely need home and even abee are so DO poorly led that they are a pity to look at in the early spring especially the which mostly look like walking skeletons eke letona havior nothing but the skin akin bogue anil and great staring eyes that tell of 4 the suffering they bey have passed through tb rouKh A good many of the cattle die year by year and they ascribe all to bad luck instead of to the real cause all of these things lead one to reflect stud and think thue farm little aud and farm well and have fewer cattle and teed feed them well and get good breed theae two will pay day better IL ii the long run by a great odds than the opposite course january opened with us with fair weather and barely any now mow in the mountains and it seemed as it there would be a repetition of the same distress of water this wear as we had last laet but the last of the mouth month and up tto th date the snow BROW has fallen to such an extent so a to completely reassure us oo on that score all nature looks ilk like e a virgin iu in a white festive dress dreas wit with here and there on the hills bills some dark spots showing the cedars and pine in bold bola relief on the landscape 1 I for my part and a low few ot of my neighbors agree with me am glad to see the senatorial con contest test ended lu in our legislature and I 1 hope that mr rawlins will prove a faithful and efficient senator and as an such will advance the interest of our young state stage an aa well as of the whole union I 1 hope congress will onset enact a law leaving to the people of the state at larue large tu to choose their th elf soua senators tors instead ol of leaving it to the legislature I 1 am in lavor favor of thu the abolition of the poll ti ux x it is IB a relic reile or 01 feudal times instead let a progressive graduated income tax be levied it la Is a shame to oblige the poor man woo has ble bie two fet arved logo legs to work on the road while the rich man with his MADY teams la Is spoiling poil log the roads let thoe th oe that thai use the road most dothe do the most work on them to tax lax the poor man and rich man alike Is unjust slid and unfair the election laws need a little revising in some minor points As they aber are now they din dont pa work very her bar I 1 should I 1 ike ka to see lee congress dinati tugs tote and establish a graduated tax OW 00 all incomes In comee the poor man has baa nothing for tho tb government to take oars care of whereas aber the government la Is obliged to take oaf of the rich man arna 94 property so my day idea to IB that the more a mao man has baa the more he be ought to pay lor for its guardia guar dialL and vadon so BO BB an to oil pital among the manses more than tb an IL to la now the of rome corrupted and lost the republic we dont want wank our to corrupt and lo 10 loew aurs they must be made to jo contribute to its ita support eup port so eo the Kovero stovern meat ment may have means meana on hand to give work to the poor men by building harbon lavesson lov levees esson on the rivers riveres reservoirs on uie mountains etc B H EDOUARD |