New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-26
THE CROPS IN UTAH.

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 81, 1860
The Spring and SUNNI of the presenI year may be
termed cold and wet Indeed ia no previous growing
season since the settlement of this valley has there
been 80 much rain. This is remarkable, as portions
of the States it appears have experienced excessive
drouth the present Summer.
TIE latter part of July and the whole of the present
month have been hot, very hot in the daytime, but
ss usual at this altitude, pleasantly cold at night
Potatoes carrots beets cabbage, and early turnips
have done we'll OF potatoes the most important and
the largest of the above named crops, the promise is
very coed, Last year in many places, especially on
high and warm lands the potato was perfect 1allurs
mapy roots having tubers and others havlng quite
a number gene rally varying in SIZE from pea 10
bny marble though few attained to the dimensions
~ a walnut The Spring Of % beng dry and not, as
far as rain was concerned though there was plenty OF
SNOW in the mountains, It was euppOsea that tne
srepfth of the potato was drawn INTO inc vine 10 tue
eriIent of the tubers. This supposon was strength
red nv the fact that the COOL moist bottom LANDS
excellent crops of fine sized potatoes were grown IL
Ia \ fact however that Tor lew years past III the
HIGHER bousets of this city potatoes have been COM
@ tive failure on land where they ones throve we'll
nobing like 80 bed this year, however, as last Many
psonle have ceaed to plant the potato on such ots
Constant cropping and irrigation Washihg away tne
fine sandy particles Of the soil may nave produceu tns
above result. fefnhps n iDtIdI ulO01A"b VI
ashes would be beneficial in these cases. beheNe
what is generally known in Eng and and the otass us
the potato disease is entirely unknown III OCah a1leas'
/ hear no talk OF IT, e,,A
The hay crop is less this year than last for although
we have had more rain this season. yet there could not
b.ve been 20 much snow in the mountains, as the
creeks and rivers have not been 30 high and Gomez
onentIv a great deal of the bottom hay land has not
Len flooded so much as last year though the rains
p Kent the surface of che higher lands mosler than
sns go that the difference in the two years crops on
inch lands il comparatively less than on lower la9uS
perhaus the present years crop Will not Dc more 'ha
tyVo,hrds or three-fourths OF last year g. ie' le
nrice of hay will most likely be no! very meh Tue com
Winter as there are very troops 10 Do suppheu'
Uav now sells in this city from slO TO $40 per tun
Tie crop of wheat, barley and oats-Wheat penny y
far the uoet widely sown-is superlori lhueeu " 10
generally reckoued superior 10 tnaI o. No so1o
since the entrance of the Mormon pioneers INTO uns
valley Brigham was telling the people in the Bowery,
a Sunday or two ago, Of few acres OF wheat VI a e
farm few miles south OF this city, being KEPT
and the prC duct measured, when 1t showed Tue hreo
figures of pinetytwo and half bushels 10 the acre;
But il must be rscolected that this extraordinary
was on rich bottom Boi-so OF almost exhauBuess Ter
t,y soil of a very different quality 10 that OF TIE
sandy or Qravelly benches adjoining. On good bottom
land forty or fifty bushels TO the acre IS considered no
thing out Of the way here. Land that produces 1855
than twenty bushels per acre Is considered as
worth cuyating and as very certain 10 make no ior-
tune for the industrious tiller of the soil Wheat ID
about 81 % per bushel -four about "a per hundred.
The corn crop Is promiEng, and believe iuiy up 70
the average though In few places 1t is hght, owing
20 one both OF two things: First, planning inc eon
100 carly the aftefsnO1s aud rains rotng the foeu IN
the ground; second depending too much on The sum