Show HOPS seeing that the grain market is no longer so profitable for our farmers as it used to be and that there is an almost demand for our surplus of the mealy tuber there is no use in concealing the fact that our agricultural agri cultura friends will do well to devote their attention time and fields to a vari variety of crops to the production of articles which will yield profits to them in proportion to their labor and investment among the crops which have hitherto been almost entirely neglected but which would yield great income in ready cash to our husbandmen are hops hope that indispensable ingredient in the brewing of beer it is not here a question whether the consumption iou of beer is wholesome and advisable or not the fact exists that beer is being manufactured and consumed in our midst and the other fact that the brewers havo have for a year past been sorely perplexed by the scarcity odthe of the hops I 1 which they had bad to import from abroad at more than fivefold five fold the former price the raising of hops is easy our soil and climate arc are excellently adapted to it and the crop is ia certain of finding ready and reliable buyers with good prices bence there is every inducement for our farmers to engage in the tile cultivation of hops in utah county hop top culture has been started on a large scale as we learn from the territorial enquirer whose reporter called on clr drw W II 11 berry a gentleman recently from new york state and now earnestly engaged in the cultivation of hops on provo bench the gentleman is thoroughly a acquainted with both the market and the raising of this commodity having C had some sonic awen ty five years experience in the busi ness in the course of tho the conversation with the enquirer inquirer mr berry stated that new york was the greatest hop growing state in the union and that california and a few other states produced barely what was necessary for home consumption utah alone has used this year about thirty five tons paying out for them the enormous sum of the crop failed last season in many places especially in germany hence hops ran up to a very high figure in this country talking of the adaptability of tho the soil and climate here for the cultivation of the hop plant he be re marked that it was unsurpassed and would even produce a better quality than new york fifteen hundred pounds could be produced to the acre mr berry is sanguine that in a few years tears there will be many engaged in tho the industry hereabouts As to a market besides utah there are idaho montana nevada colorado wyoming nebraska kii and other states and territories that consume large quantities of hops and produce very few gitany the average price per pound taking one year with another is about thirty cents and it ia is thought that t they hey can be raised d here for less than fifteen cents a pound utah could dispose of at least r aioo tons yearly at that figure thirty cents which would amount to mr berry has purchased a large tract of land le nd on provo bench and ia is intending to go extensively into the bu briness bub incas iness he ile has already eight acres set out with nati native ve plants having obtained them on the river bottoms they are gr grow W ing nicely and bid fair to thrive well enough root cuttings cut to plant fifteen acres more are expected in a few days from new york ten thousand poles two and a half to three inches in diameter and fifteen to eighteen feet I 1 been contracted for and many more will be needed when the next lotis lot a set out the hop commences to produce from f rom the second year vear after planting and it is his i intention nten tion to erect this winter a drying house a store house and import the necessary presses for the preparing of next years crop for market the bulk b ilk of the work of the season cornea comes on at picking time when children will will be engaged in preference to grown persons there are exactly the same fa cili ties and inducement inducements fur for hop raising ia in weber county as exist in utah county besides the demand forthe for the plant ia is more immediate and more extensive here both for direct manufacture by our brewers and exportation to adjoining states and territories in this connection we w may ma also repeat a former statement that t zat K R A wells co of the U P brewery offer offie r a premium re i um of cah cash for the first abala bale of marketable hops hope raised in weber county who wanta to procure this premium tn TUB r army of the tile united states is at present presen t made up of twenty five regiments of infantry ten jegi menta of cavalry five regiments of artille artillery ryan anil d a corps of engineer engineers comprising in all enlisted men 2181 commissioned officers making with cadets cabets and nine professors a grand aggregate of men in active service there being also retired officers on the rolla rolls the annual pay of the general of the army is and of the lieu lieutenant benau tg t G generals ene ralS I 1 while the major generals re rl ceide brigadier generals colonels lieutenant colonels majora 2500 mounted captains 2000 and captains dismounted 1800 the chaplains of whom there are 34 receive receive 1503 the pay of a private soldier for the first two years of service is 13 a month being increased 81 a month for each year of service until for the fifth year it is a month if then he be reen re en lists he be receives 18 a month and for each subsequent re enlistment 81 1 more THE hartsville MARTS VILLE cal appeal I 1 says it is rumored that the central pacific will eoon soon build a branch road to Kni knights gilts landing on oil or near the line of the old vallejo road connecting with the california oregon at marksville marysville Marys ville it is stated that the object is to control the transportation of grain from sutter county most of which now goes to market by water curiously enough all or nearly all the maps of california represent a line of railroads extending from woodland to marysville marksville Marys ville via knights ts landing although it has never been built further than the latter place the prop proposed oed line of the old valle vallejo 0 marysville marksville Marys ville road which was never neve r b lilt tilt got marked on some former iapani lap and it lias bas been perpetua tec on subsequent maps even the b and most accurate A IENI mry to the grapevine has ap d A is california and began its ravages on a limited scale C P moore of Geyser vill in in in whose vineyard it made its appearance pe arance describes it as follow the tile ravager is a white worm about one eighth of an inch in length and i in 12 appearance resembles a maggot so farie far we have found none of them at the roots their line of assault appears to be confined to the canes the ins in tested branches are pierced by a row of holes cut along the center of the wood at distances of one half to one inch apart and through which holes the worms seem to have entered their objective point being the pit which is sometimes packed full of them I 1 have no means of knowing the rapidity of their increase or emigration gration since I 1 was unaware of their existence until a few weeks ago but I 1 concluded that the trouble began began before the tile vines had bad completed their last seasons growth in order to get rid of this pest the vines arc are cut oft below the part attacked DITCHES have been and ever will continue to be the arteries through which the life fluid 0 of the great salt lake valley flows over a once sterile but now fertile soil the advantages of this great auxiliary to agriculture arc are realized and utilized elsewhere thus the bovein ma cut for the construction of irrigating ditches in colisa colusa county cal promises to amount to something last week a call was issued for a meeting of landowners land owners and some prominent capitalists were expected tobe to be present the colusa calusa sun Sune says ays this land flooded will put a hundred thousand men to w work ork we will seo see fields fieldi now devoted to eummer summer fallow a wheat crop once in two years cut up into ten acre tracts each supporting a family IN ANSWER to frequent inquiries as to whether an officer of the law haa hu any right and authority to arrest a person on the street or elsewhere without a magistrates war rant raut we will state that an ail officer is authorized by statute to make an arrest without a warrant when ho he haa has reason to believe that a crime lias has been committed committal by the person to be arrested even though he be may not aeve seen the act committed of course he ile t exercise a sound discretion A WASHING washington TOV DISPATCH gayes details of another leal doal whereby the railroads get getaway away with uncle sams money aa As they have got away with ao so much laud ail they mig might abt as well gobble the gold of the govern ment |