| Show PLAIN PLAIX CITY POINTS hints for farmers and gardeners crop prospects Prospect sEc etc EDITOR AS a weekly budget from some of our thriving settlements ettle ments is the order of tho the day I 1 s suppose 0 1 nn an bocc occasional one from our ou arta little t 1 burg on the weber will not be out of order in the first place in bolting looking over wednesday wednesdays issue pf the HERALD I 1 find two articles tie es in its columns that I 1 think demand the immediate of our farmers and gardeners viz the putting up of potatoes in the manner referred to by mr griffin and the foolishness of dealing with east ern nursery agents with regard to the first named abject I 1 know that thit quite a number of our farmers arc are to blame blone and I 1 also believe from reliable information obtained that some of our ogden shippers are somewhat to blame I 1 will give one instance in stanco that happened at a bui busi ness mart in ogden it was during a time that plain city farmers were holding on to their ill spuds rather than drop them below what they had been receiving viz 50 cents ants per bushel daring during this time the above named mart had its shingle eh ingle out highest cash price paid F aid for for potatoes c boc day a farmer stepped into the place and add eold sold a few backs of pata potatoes toca at 45 cents per bushel butas but as my informant aid said the sample poor that 25 cents per bushel would haye have been beta enough I 1 fuen mention tion this to show that the blamo blame is not all on the farmers tide side I 1 trust that the chamber of commerce and tho the coming boom will have a tendency koopen to open the eyes of both farmer and shipper to a sense of duty and to their own interests in and now v ith regard to the second subject I 1 would ask the question how bow much longer aa shall we farmers and gardeners mahe make fools of ourselves by being tak taken ea in in by highly colored plates ordinarily magnified specimens 11 of f horticulture I think if we k know n ow what is thour best inte interest reit we will gt autt tho the fronT this thia on ali A mr fr says it see ms that we aro are are willing to bo bilked sev son after season even after we have bad had our fingers burnt and he also draws the attention if the read era erg of the HERALD to the price pric of these imported portel Im trees rees which I 1 tb think ink also ie is a very important wilt will draw ft a comparison as I 1 an am one who has bad had his fingers burnt a little atle price of trees apricots Ap ricote each apple apples pear pears plums from to tol 61 shrubs such as a currant currants etc 3 our own nurseries charge fo for r good thrifty abric apricots ap ricote s and pears from to 40 each apples from to currants cur rante etc 10 in my own experience I 1 have bad had better success with home raised trees than with any casserd trees that ever found their way into utah territory I 1 could eay say more in favor of our burger nursery in men e di but I 1 refrain for the present our fall and spring grain begins to look nice ii ce our early potato crop arc are mostly put in our strawn berry cro crop by the look looks of the vices vinea ii is not bidding bi T ding as fair as the pat past scalon I 1 think thie this is owing to a laek lack of enow the past two winters snow contains considerable of plant food in the shape of ammonia the health of our citizens continues good everybody body deeina cheerful and coli contented tetz and is till still putting in his hi best licks to meet ogden boom yours JAKE jarr CITY april 1887 |
