The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-02-15

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EXTRAORDINARY lERT,lIrY. -Whcri.
bishop Holiday, residing in Utah
Territory, on South Cottonwood Greet
about ten mills south Of The Great Salt
Lake City, raised, from one bushel sow
Ing, one hundred and eighty bushels of
the choicest and cIcanc5t wheat, meas
ured up, and il weighed plump sixty
pounds to the hu>heI This bushel was
sowtd in drills upon three or four acres
/ OF ground, and s2asunably irrirated.
This same gentleman informed rs that
his wheat was better this last season
than it was the year previous, and he
ieit confident that portion of his last
crop would produce two hundred bush
els from one bushel sowing, though not
then threshed out. That is truly great
country for wheat, but it requires much
labor and attention during the season of
irrigation; and connected with this op-
GRAFTON, there are many little things to
be observed, or you will ruin your crop
. Every new settler can learn them
all from the experience of those who
were there before him. No country
that we ever saw can equal it for vines,
and vegetables Of all kinds. Melons in
great abundance are produced there, of
the largest size and richest quality that
we ever saw. 1t is not natural for In
dian corn, yet it is grown there, and the
land has been made to produce fifty BUSH
els to the acre, though this is an uncom-
mon yield.
Farmers begin to sow wheat there
in August, and continue to sow every
month, and perhaps every week, when
frost does not prevent, until the next
June; and about the Goth of June they
begin to harvest, and continue harvest
ing their wheat until the following No
vcmher. We left there on the 1st day
OF October, and the vines were all as
green as summer, and many pieces of
wheat were not harvested, but were Just
turning white; and we said, surely, this
is the country where "thc plowmen over
take the reapers.'
In this country, when wheat is ripe,
it has TO be harvested or the crop is lost.
Not so here. 1t may stand in the field
a month after it is ripe, and take no harm.
It is different sort of wheat from ours.
W hen early wheat is harvested in that
country, by irriSating the stubbleground
a second growth springs out from the
roots Of the stuobla and not from the
seed; and often comes TO maturity the
same year. This is usually the case
with oats.-FTontjer Guard5an 25M ult.
AN OPINION OF REvERDY JonNsoN.-
The committee appointed by the meet.
ing Of the creditors of Texas, have OBJ
tanned the opinion Of Reverdy johnson,
Esq, to the following effect:
"Hhat the provso referred to in the
act, included all the loans evidenced by
Texas notes consolidated fund, Or ster-
ling bonds, and made under the acts of
Texas ofthe 18th November, 1886, 4th
June, 1887 9th June, 1887, 10th May,
1898, 22d January, 1889, 10Th July,
1899, and 18th January, 1910; and al
so the 10k per cent. stock, and the per
cent. bonds given under act 9Th Feb
ruary, 1910, amounting in the aggre-
gate to 81, $50 sos, exclusive of inter-
EST since accrued.
ssThcre onnpars IN he soma obsc,r;+v
in the WORDING ofthe law and the Whole
matter NAV nToh,bJv bovo to hs roG,r.
red to Congress for adjustment
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DEATH OF GAIT. WALKER.-There
have been many conflicting reports con-
corning the identity Of the man who kill
led the celebrated Texan Ranger whose
name heads this paragraph. The Gin
cinnati Commercial says:
A gentleman who was in Mexico at