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well as from the above amed 8tate. The vines
need no especial care or protection, nfourishiog
luxuriantly in the open groun  sad producing
in great abundance the moot luscious fruit.
Apple trees also succeed admiiably, growing
fine and thrifty; but with peach trees tbe case
is different, the severity of the winters being
sufficient to kill them.
  The keeping of bees is likewise a great suc-
cess, and efforts will be made to introduce and
feed them on quite an extended scale. Exper-
iments have demonstrated the somewhat re-
asarkablc fact that nowhere else in the settled
portions of the Territory can bees be made to
live or thrive.
  I will mention that about forty miles north-
ward from the village of Santa Clara, in the
cotton country. was the scene or the terrible
"M Mountain Meadows Massacre,  where, in
18.57, a large company of men, women, and
children, who were crossing the plains from
Arkansas to California. were suddenly attacked
by blood-thirsty savaces, and one hundred and



' twenty of them most barbarously murdered in
cold blood. A ranche is now established with-
in three miles of the occne of that sanguinary
conflict.
    To the kindness and courtesy of Hon. Geo.
A. Smith, Church Historian and Recorder, am
I especially indebted for much of the above in-
formation.                C. H. HOwsAn.
   Ga3Av SALT Lix. CiTy, Jan. 10, 163
   FARMERs SUOL LI) CORa spPOND.-What the
 Michegan Farmer says we say:-Thc long win-
 ter evenings are now passing-your crops are
 gathered and stored or sold; you have leisure
 hours which can aud should be devoted to writ-
 ing. which we hope every farmer will improve
 , by corresponding aud giving us the results of
 their practical agricultural operations on the
 tatrm. Many of the most important features
 that have been so valuable to the agriculturist
 at large, have been arrived at by a personal
 narration of the simple facts themselves; these
 are productive of great good, and we trust our
 farmer friends will find time to write; give us
 the points and we will put them in ample
 |form.



          USlisaJm of Pend NUIL
  In reply to "Skye" relative to the utili-
zation of mud taken from a fish pond, I beg to
sa that with  the aIst 1ive year I have hud
the oenastental waters; km gllelned st5 and
=b4;nt a large quantity of mnd. One of the
ponds had not been cleaned out for upward6 oft
thirty year_ anl the depedt was very grea8'aad
riek. There is a stream running conpletel;,
through the ponds, and there are large quanti-
ties of leaves and other decayed substaieees
left in them. The method I foew i te tead
the mad on to the grass land as soon as it has
become sufficiently solid to'bear carting. and
then spread it; sad the effect on the grams I
surpming -One yr I put it en so thick that
I epeeted I had destroyed the grass, but the
iollowini iummeF It was very difficult to mow
trom the thie-1es and lenth of the grass. I
believe that lime doep not do -as mutch good
when mixed with the mud, as the mud alone.
It must not be left one year before spread, but
done a" onee.-Lodox Picld.

    Washington Agricultural Deportment.

  The Commissioner of Agriculture has com-
municated the following to the House of Rep-
reqentativea:
        DEPARTMNXT or AoRICULrusaE,
      WAtIt1INTON, D. C., Dec. 1, 1862.
  Sja :-In compliance with the resolutions of
the House of Representatives of the 3d and 5th
inst., I respectfully submit the following state-
ment: No official transfer of the property of
the Agricultural Division of the Patent Office
in the Department of the Interior has been
made to this Department, nor has any official
report or transfer of the unexpended balance,
if any, of the Agricultural Fund of the fiscal
year ending tune 30), 1862, been received.
Bills chieflyr for conributions to the Agricul-
tural Report of the Patent Office for 1801 (com-
pleted prior to the organization of this Depart-
ment), and amounting to about $1,000 have
been referred to me for settlement by the Com-
missioner of )atents, and others outstanding
will, according to his letter of the 8th inst., to
the House of Representatives, probably swell
the amount to a sum not much short of $4,000.
If, as is intimated in the opinion of the Attor-
ney General, a copy of which is hereby
annexed, marked B, this Department may be
called upon to meet these claims or any part of
them, I shall be compelled to ask a special ap-
propriation for the purpose. This Department
entered into operation on the 1st of July, 1862.
The sum expended under its direction, for all
purposes, up to the kth inst., as shown ly the
detailed statement, a copy, of which is hereun-
to aneexed, marked A, is $27,782 22, leaving
an unexpended balance of the appropriation
for the iesl year eading June 80, 1862, of
582.217 78. The outstanding claims against
the Department are as follows, viz



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