Show PROSPECTS NOT SO BRILLIANT I 1 every year teaches us the wisdom of the counsel that has been given to the inhabitants of this territory by our leaders with regard to saving bread stuffs and keeping a supply on hand sufficient for from one to seven years tho tile most flattering prospect prospects can be blighted ina few weeks or days tho the experience of one season geason furnishes no criterion by vy which wo we can judge of the next wo we may have crickets to fight grasshoppers to contend with too little water with which to irrigate or too much in the form of ofrain rain when when it is liable to do injury in ury urs to cropp crops these things and dud many others which are arc incident to this country or with which the people may have to contend should teach wisdom to all and care in handling the products of the earth it is very generally conceded that the late copious rains have beriou seriously sly siy i ja maged aged tile the wheat crop in various I 1 parts arte of the territory and that thit rust prevails to a large extent on the strength of fth the promising prospects of a few wrecks geks s a ago go that tile the present harvest vesi would bo be an unusually bountiful one ono many farmers iti 0 k disposed bf br their surplus wheat which they had hud ilu sigved Siu ved rely ing on the crop they were about to cut granting Gra this it follows that there is not so sq much old wheat as sonie some imagine dand and that with the present yield much below what was expected the amount of sound sa leable wheat in the territory after har haf harvest vest will not be near so great a as awas was supposed it would be under these circumstances cum eum stances it will be wise policy for farmers not to bo be too anxious to rush what wheat they may have I 1 caspare ta spare into market with the dread of the price be coming very low it will wili be much sounder policy to hold on to it and keep sacred a sufficiency to last them not merely until next harvest but to the tic harvest after that the present season and the past summer ands i ud dring spring have buve been without a arnal arral lel lei ili in this thia country since it was first settled some may imagine that the cli ell climate matelis is changing some may think that in future rw wo 1 will be biek bles blessed ed I 1 with an abundance of rain this is a very unsafe speculation Wema vo may shave shavo have a light 0 fall of snow next winter vinter wo we may have a very dry season next summer with little or no rall rail lind and not sufficient water to irrigate with and we might have very sparse crops as a con eon sequence the wise man provides against a contingencies when they arise before him so th far as it Is in his bis power and ir our people aie arc ahse they will not part with their grain at low rates yates for articles which may bo be dispensed with nor at any price where there is the possibility lity however remote of themselves and families being left without bread |