TMEN 4ICOXSIN FARMMELt.



  "Why, the cost of
equal al the money
a these twenty yeal
,ad keep in repair
bnuch more.
    Yet merchants c
4heir backs, and tell
6 art scarcely less
Ihysician, who det
animal life-a busin
of science and pract
Fed forms of life, al
lendless complicatioi
soils, propagation, I
has ever reached, or
edge beyond which
known.
  "Do not farmers
,$800,000 a year we
company for carryib
Liverpool?  That,!
the past, for thirty
,propriations. The
rmore-good for a d4
farmers.
  "The estimates fA
~expenses of the six
,$470,240; for the cc
aries of consuls, $4
light houses, 606,60
entire sum doled ou
years. If those suw
'fair presumption tU
brains to see how h
tural dose for so p
ithey deem farmers
resent the neglect ?
has not exhibited s
sense, nor will it.
  "The same estim
.eign intercourse; $
sion of the slave tri
the freed negroes of
and $110,O00 for X
'Washington. On a
appropriations, for
of agriculture in 1
years amount to en



a a good war steameg would
expondea upon agriculture
rs; and to man, provision,
r, would require about as

can pat the poor farmers on
1 them they need no aid in
scientific than that of the
als with the mysteries of
ess which involves so much
tical experience, such myr-
nid kaleidescopie results of
is in heat, moisture, light,
hybridization, that no man
ever will, a point in knowl-
h nothing further can be

remember when more than
ire granted to a steamship
ig mails from New York to
is sufficient, acoording to
years of agricultural ap-
Havre line cost $360,000
)ten annual grants for the

br the coming year ask for
a auditors of the Treasury
)ast survey, $559,200; sal-
14,000; care and repair of
01; each about equal to the
t to agriculture for twenty
ns are not too much, is it a
tat Congressmen have not
omneopathic is this agricul-
owerful a patient ? or that
so stupid as not to feel and
No; the present Congress
such a vacuum of practical

ates ask $1,236,190 for for-
t1,000,000 for the suppres-
Lde; 264,000 for colonizing
f the District of Columbia;
the Metropolitan Police of
.n Average the agricultural
the most extensive system
the world, would, in four
ough to pay the police of



the Federal city. And yet, when our farmers
were, on the first of July, for the first time,
represented in our Government, there are found
a very few Congressmen, from an agricultural
section too, who would begrudge the sum of
$180,000 for it-just enough to buy a rotten
steamer to answer as a coffin for a battalion of
soldiers bound south! Is it not paltry ? Is it
not base neglect, or stupid ignorance of the
wants of farmers, and the facts of political
economy ?
  "We do not write this to complain of the
action, or of indisposition to right action on
the part of law makers. On the contrary, the
present Congress has evinced a higher appre-
ciation, perhaps, of the importance of the ag-
ricultural interest, and a better understanding
of its wants than any other.  But it is calcu-
lated to excite the impatience of a man half
alive to the benefits that would result from a
more wise and liberal policy, to note how cav-
alierly demagogues have treated the agricultu-
ral interest, and with what asinine stupidity
the great mass of our fellow farmers have
borne the infliction."

      Cotton Culture in lUtah Territory.
  Presuming that some information in regard
to the culture of cotton in this Territory might
interest your readers, I have obtained some
items on the subject which I embody in this
communication.
  The cotton country proper-known univers-
ally here by the name of " Dixie "-embraces
certain portions of Washington county, the
most southern in the Territory, and the lands
adapted to its culture are the bottoms lying
along the small streams forming the head wa-
ters of the Rio Virgin river, which flow south-
wardly, and empty ultimately into the Gulf of
California. The sources of these streams are
separatad but a few miles from those of Sevier
river which flows to the northward and de-
kouches into Sevier Lake.
  The general features of the country are very
uninviting, being rough and mountainous, and
aside from its adaptability to growing cotton,
presents but little inducement for settlement.



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