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Show WESTERN THE receiving more than the announced he would have more cause for ill-temper. price much <i <Q THANKSGIVING. pursuits are solicited. HARVEST GLADNESS. Praise be Thine, eternal King, Young and old “Hosanna”sing; Thou hast blest us far and wide At the beauteous harvest-tide ; Angel voices high are blending In the anthem never-ending; Hear us, while we fain would render Praise for mercies kind and tender. Lord, ’tis thine almighty hand That enwreaths the radiant land, In a royal robe of gold; Shining vineyards hill-tops hoary, Woods aflame declare Thy glory; Thou hast hung the fruitage glowing is, and’ if the person who visits it for the first time possesses any of the qualities of the idealist in his composition, he is sheep raised in the United States is entitled to entry free of duty. The de- the mill they stand in about the position pretty sure of the horse-dealer’s cow after being enchanting prospect unfolded before him. In summer time he sees the soft the collector of customs at New York in holding that where the entered back from the re- tutelage of Soc- rates. But in the latter case honest Socrates did not. promise to educate the cow up to his_ philosophical standard. The pupil’s life at the The beauty and consistency of the custom needs no advocate. . That less being indeed who. would not in the ordinary routine of activity consent to the perpetuation of a practice attended by the ennobling home. There should be But Are Thy tender mercies near ; ip>—> > Thou, our Hope, our Help forever, God of harvest! leave“us never, — Till we reach our Father’s portal, Bearing Homeward sheaves immortal ! ! —Margaret Haycroft, in Quiver. > OUR <i to, have cattle running out ts feed through the cold season, look after them before the snow flies, that. in case of a sudden heavy storm they can be found without difficulty. > MARKET Ir you in the hills which you expect REPORT, up premises and If not attended to now, every day will increase the chances of it not being done at all: The harrow or plow that is in the perceive WEEKLY they that the isin no wise would WESTERN accounta- ble for the figures quoted. falls is rest the be normal any in every particular. | For the past forty years the country at large has been turning out paupers and millionaires. The latter having employed their undisturbed opportunities honest and industrious UTAH guages, the Danish and the English, both farmers have been feeding the vampires while others even more helpless have been performing their menial servi- tude. of which are alternately used by men, woman and children. If any of your readers have a desire to learn to speak It is simply a returning to feudal Danish they have here The of AND In the first place we could have no possible object in misquoting the current prices, whilst we have every object in making the returns cor-rect. The adjustments are made regularly the last thing before each issue by the most responsible persons to be obtained in the several distributing centres from which we Epirors WESTERN number ricultural station ? College But and Experiment meanwhile, as silence reigns on this matter as yet, I propose to price paid ‘for the several articles seller will have to himself ~ quoted determine for by observing on the the week price previous, rates would be the thing to insanity. cannot forbear the by some happening next Meanwhile we opinion that if the farmer expense. Still in the set in motion by public be self-sustaining. out practical Else farmers; expense it cannot they will should. turn be as strangers to the methods of the country where they will have to make their living by self-sustenance. i It is quite another thing with the “Experiment. station,” whose sole should not be used for champagne dinners to visiting dignitaries. There are many public institutions of learning which turn out impracticable Congress with information that may aid round under cu'tivation rate of regular Smooth Potatoes. We have been digging potatoes from a piece of ground that has not been cultivated for a number of years, and they are as smooth as could be desired, while the same variety planted in a garden turned out very rough and very shabby. We have had a similar experience be- fore, and are left ‘somewhat in doubt as to the'real cause of the difference. If any fertilizer effects a change, why should it notdo soin every case? These are questions for determination. by experiment stations.—Hwx. THE time to repair a barn door is when the first clinch breaks; the time to repair a harness is when the first stitch — breake; the near it as time may to repair a be dam is as considerably before breaks. THE WESTERN and corporation has sections sheep large numbers owned the of by the in the hills. bought in Saturday, Nov. 24, 1888. Sfco The up all the rail- vicinity thereby & © Butter, @ Ib Eggs, 28 | 25 95 42 doz Flour, Bran, «“ oe Shorts : 20 ' ‘1 i 10 00!1 90 00 5 1 25 i Onions 90 Wheat, % bu. Potatoes BE 30 66 @ here, some of them travelers and well informed, have pronounced it the most beautiful valley _|they have ever seen. The time may self-satisfaction, I shall bring it to a readers know little or nothing concern- close; well. satisfied, indeed, if it shall ing it, and for that very reason I shall bring a few passing thoughts to “The take the liberty, unpardonable as it may Valley.” which is ‘one of the crowning beauties of the ever-beautiful Wasatch | Mountains. S. Mantua, Nov. 19, 1888. <> -- — - ‘Treasury Department : has 90 ee fea alae he 90 1 00 80 | 75 25 SS 30) See 35 85 40 bid legorlagal lie‘ | eer ie eG 40 tb 66 41g 5 mole le ee = 8 17 io LOM ce T oe 6 ce Ho ele Seagbnctues phe 66 Plumey “os cl 66 Apples, gen: | Wool,# ib Hides “ ‘ 3 eld ae 8 | 8 105° |1514! 8 atu 10. 157% SS ag 70 | 40 10: jad bos dry| 8 sca) on | green es a TOESeye LSet boas 6 41g io. los gaa wa ; [4 * (33> Ogden Report Corrected weekly by H. L. GRIFFIN, Wholesale Produce and Commission Merchant. Nephi Report VICKERS. Provo Report C. A. GuAZIER. Corrected . weekly by. J. Corrected “weekly W. by Logan Report Corrected eekly ‘by AG McLatexiy, at Z. C. M. I. Salt Lake Report Corrected weekly by Secretary of Produce Exchange. —— The Wool Tariff ‘The i 10. Oe their way a oe EL Gera aM secured. Indeed, the necessaries of a simple life are abundantly supplied. I can just imagine what a favorite camping place in summer this little Its 27 | 22 10/1 -15;1 20 dried, it is to Brigham. 25 | og | 20 \2744| E i 30/1 Peaches, as a / 00}1 35/1 quaking asp, pine, cedar and maple, hence fuel is both plentiful and easily City 2 | 20 ani)454115/11010 1 25/1 « - Corn Pork 8 md 80 [1 00! 75 | 90 ee sae ak ance001leer00 1 ou be ee 22/6 | q [2 002 Bia ool a2 35 hun’d 2 50 2 50° 00:2 80 5 35 4 Beef, lo tf ‘|found Entering the canyon east of Brigham City and ascending it for three or four}. miles, one is all at once ushered into “The Valley,” which breaks upon his oe DQ 20 Veal praises would be sung over the. whole continent. The few tourists who have side world. 3s us valley would be if it were as near to Salt. Apricots _ seem to some, of presentinga few of its merits for the consideration of the out- WEEKLY CURRENT MARKET REPORT. is -|come when summer campers may flock hither to revel in the beautiful scenery, ' |the fine air and the good fishing and Epitors WESTERN WEEKLY: hunting which are its strong attractive There is a little valley in Box Elder qualities, and which are so greatly at a county which people thereabouts call premium with the denizens of the hot, “The Valley.” It lies four or five miles crowded cities and towns. east of Brigham City, and according to My dissertation has grown long. andi" my way of thinking it well deserves the perhaps wearisome as well, so to keep distinction which the term implies. It the temper of my readers and my own is. very probable that many of your men, because the pupils, having been taken out from a practical condition of view with.a wealth of true Acadian life, which should be simply improved ' ‘beauty. A real gem of the mountains it higher In order:to secure smooth potatoes, it: is better to plant on new land, or that has not been under cultivation for a time. . of the Western Weekly. An Acadian Valley, not raised. securing to the community a large area of valuable feeding lands. The mountains near at hand are well stocked with itin legislating <i> <2 does |. about, offer- village, and large at be Lake upon agricultural matters, [Correspondence :.c es people, run road another found to of cattle, horses subjects not speaking without experience, having been both a pupil and a teacher in such an institution. Itis unsound in principle for public institutions to be put on higher expenditures than the average condition of necessary are raising is quite extensively carried on. There are no fewer than 300 milch cows opera- function of the bureau will be to supply whether the market is likely to mission should be to grope in unsolved. decline or raise. For the editor problems, giving true and reliable anof this paper to report prices pur- swers to what farmers: want to. know. The $20,000 yearly for this purpose, is posely below or above the actual quite a good sum to commence with. It current the potatoes altitude is rather too high and the climate too cold for peaches and grapes: The neighboring hills are fine grazing lands and as one would suppose stock about which information may be required for general distribution whenever the importance. of the subject seems to warrant action of duty. Oats and potatoes are raised. The hardier kinds of fruit, such as apples,plums, etc., Barley are also successfully cultivated, but the give afew introductory items, of what I think such an institution ought to be, receive quotations. ‘We simply correct the table in conformity with the figures sent to the people will warrant. . Hence *the s. The figures we quote mean the Utah Agricultural College, after being ‘on the day before publication. Whither the price will be the same in two or three days later the the and about 2000. I have stated that good crops of grain abroad, which will be distributed among the experimental stations. A feature of the work will be to engage the ablest on wheat, oats greater portion of it is owned by Brigham City, there is scarcely enough to supply all the land under cultivation, and for that reason considerable dry farming is carried on, from which fair returns are usually had. The total in this country and articles not result in the ing a most bounteous supply of the pre- assigned its quarters in the Department compile the carry the highest rate of duty imposed by the tariff on wools of the same class to appraise and advance more than 10 per cent entails the imposition of a penal duty, evenif such advance does is elliptical in form cious fluid,but owing to the fact that the The work iu behalf of the agricultural interests of the nation is moving ahead. The Bureau of agriculture,: authorized at the last session of congress has been to itself from the mountains specialists in this country and Europe WEEKLY: Would it not be well to hear something of what is going on in regard to our Ag- sustained Large springs of living water burst forth OF AGRICULTURE. active has value of ‘a given class of wools up onto the side hills. The farms are generally well cared for, and good crops T. A. Mapsen. experiments valley vided up in small farms; and these cover its entire expanse, in places even running chants, while they will be left with the alternative of menial servitude or starvation. tural excellent and ahout two and a half miles in length by one and a half in breadth. It is di- -The farmers of. Utah have particular reasons for rousing themselves to action. If they do not, ere long they will wake up and find their possessions in the grasp of lawyers and bankers and mer- BUREAU a most partment opportunity of doing so. Bulletins will be issued from Mane to time setting out the results of agricul- AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXPERIMENT STATION. people, and the little holding they have won in this spot, so far remote from their native land, tions. Weekly,) in an speak of thrift and providence which are to impoverish the laborer and grind him their natural traits. Here. one listens under the iron heel of monopoly. The almost in the same breath to two lan- fessor Atwater has begun (Corrosy oadence of the Western In the all of them Danish, who settled down this place many years ago. They are It should is of building and under the direction of Pro- ti. _- flights let me de- practical affairs. future. If there “~ tached to the report field when the first snow romantic tween sixty and seventy families, nearly your lable to remain there the winter. land- pupil there should be an example for his labor. to some of the farmers to be able prepare for snow. to sell their potatoes on some occasions at a higher figure than the price designated in our market report, and we are hearing a few scattering complaints to the effect that we are against the farmers. If such persons would take the time to inspect the foot notes at- of the little town of Mantua, or Copenhagen as it is often called, which nestles at, the western verge of the valley, there are be- from <i <— CLEAN blending in place that idleness should not enter it is an agricultural college. The life of the exempt i>> <-> It seems to be a great annoyance from scend to more pupils and elevating associations and re- times, only in a different form. The obflections that charactize the cere— ject of monopoly was then limited to Praise for sun and praise for dew, monies of the day of thanksgiving cherished possesssions. Now it is Praise for love for ever new! * And when a majority of the citi- everything. Praise for bounties richly shed, How are the farmers represented in That Thy children may be fed; zens of this Great Republic shall our National Congress? Is there genBread of life for all availing, become so despicably mean as to erally more than one per cent. who inVine the true, the never-failing ! permit the custom to fall into dis- terest themselves with an honest. purFeed our souls, in Thee confiding, use, there should at once be pro- pose in agricultural pursuits? The farmers Keep our lives in Thine abiding. claimed a day for universal regrets represent two-thirds or more of the Old and young their music raise, It is time they were for the degeneration of the Ameri- common wealth. Allthings breathing chant Thy praise ; asserting their rights in the political can character. Kivery season, every year, transactions of the country. Where the orchard-boughs are blowing. hills pictured of fairy-land, and when viewed from one of the neighboring heights, the environment will only tend to strengthen the illuston. keepers. no idlers, no rounded their roughness it reminds one most forcibly of scenes his imagination has Then, having ers and better farmhouse rapture over the brighter hues, the beauties ciences in theirseparate spheres of farm been taught at the institution of learning the methods of correcting these shortcomings, they will be better farm- the into scape are intensified and more clearly drawn. ‘The valley is a miniature of the larger valleys‘of Utah, and shorn of all there, both boys and girls, should, as far as possible, learn the wants and defilife before leaving of to go exquisite harmony with the varied green of the vegetation; and in autumn when the frost begins to paint the leaves in agri:ultural and Territories as aday of general the constitution. colors college should be as nearly as possible the same as at home. Pupils who go thanksgiving. There have been thanksgiving proclamations before the date named but not in the exact sense in which the day is now observed. In 1789, for example, Washington, in pursuance of a re— quest of Congress, issued a proclamation recommending a day of thanksgiving for the adoption of would be a very sordid and soul- That the pastures doth enfold by a broadening and rectifying of the knowledge they already possess; but lo and behold! after having gone through ceived Thanksgiving as a recognized ‘| National Holiday dates back only to 1863. Since that date the last Thursday in November has been regularly proclaimed by the Presi-— This Department will be devoted strictly dent of the Union and after him to the interests and development of Western Farming and Stock Culture, and conthe Governors of the several States tributions from persons engaged in those WEEKLY. Hides and Wool by. J. W. re- jected the claims of certain importers that wool obtained at Trinidad from SANDERS, (ase Where two sate of figures are quoted in same space, price san eer from one to the other: a / |
