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Show CHAP. VI. ANNUAL EXHIBITION IN UTAH TERRITORY. 285 Mormons, unlike the Hibernians, of whom it was said in the last century that no man ever planted an orchard, have applied themselves manfully to remedying the deficiency, and the next generation will probably be safe. At present, " hard woods," elm, hackberry, pecan or button-wood, hickory, mulberry, basswood, locust, black and English walnut, are wanted, and must be imported from the Eastern States. The lower kanyons and bottoms are clothed with wild willow, scrub maple, both hard and soft, box elder, aspen, birch, cotton-wood, and other amentacias, and in the south with spruce and dwarf ash. The higher grounds bear stunted cedars wnite and red, balsam and other pines, the dwarf oak, which, like the maple, is a mere scrub, and the mountain mahogany, a tough, hard, and strong, but grainless wood, seldom exceeding eight inches in diameter. Hawthorn (a Crakegus) also exists, and in the southern and western latitudes the pinon {P. monophyllus), varying from the size of an umbrella to twenty feet in height, feeds the Indians with its oily nut, which not a little resembles the seed of the pinaster and the Mediterranean P. Pinea, and supplies a rich gum for strengthening plasters. The present state of agriculture in the vicinity of Great Salt Lake City will best be explained by the prospectus of the annual show for I860.* Wheat thrives better than' maize, which in the * List of premiums to be awarded by the Desere't Agricultural and Manufacturing Society, at the Annual Exhibition, October 3d and 4th, I860. CLASS A.-CATTLE. Awarding Committee-Hector C. Haight, Wm. Jennings, Wm. Miller, Alex. Baron. Beat Durham bull $11 00 2d do 5 00 3d do. dip. Best Devon bull 10 00 do. 8 00 3d do. dip. Best bull under 1 year 5 00 2d do. do dip. Best Durham cow and calf 5 00 2d do. do. 3 00 3d do. do. dip. Best Devon cow and calf.. 5 00 2d do. do. .. 3 00 3d best Devon cow and calf dip. Best native or cross cow and calf. $5 00 2d do. do. 3 00 3d do. do. dip. Best 2 year old heifer 3 00 2d do. do. dip. Best 1 year old heifer 2 00 2d do. do dip. Best matched native cattle. 5 00 2d do. do. 3 00 3d do. do. dip. Best blooded & wooled buck 5 00 2d best blooded and wooled buck $3 00 3d do. do. dip. Best 2 ewes for blood and wool 4 00 2d do. do. 2 00 3d do. do. dip. Best boar 3 00 2d do 2 00 3d do dip. Best sow and pigs 3 00 2d do 2 00 3d do. dip. CLASS B.-FIELD CHOPS. Awarding Committee-A. P . Rockwood, Joseph Holbrook, L. E. Harrington, John Rowberry. $5 00 3d best 1 acre of peas dip. 3 00 Best 1 acre of flax $6 00 dip. 2d do 3 00 5 00 3d do. dip. 3 00 Best 1 acre of hemp 5 00 dip. 2d do. 3 00 5 00 3d do dip. 3 00 Best 1 acre of red clover .. 5 00 dip. 2d do. .. 3 00 5 00 3d do. .. dip. 3 00 Best 1 acre of potatoes.... 3 00 dip. 2d do. dip. 5 00 BeBt 1 acre of Hungarian 3 00 grass 3 00 dip. 2d do. 2 00 5 00 3d do. dip. 3 00 Best acre of rye 3 00 Best fenced and cultivated farm not less than twenty acres $5 00 2d do. dip. Best fenced and cultivated garden 5 00 2d do. dip. Best 5 acres of sugar-cane 15 00 2d do. 10 00 3d do. 5 00 4th do. dip. Best 1 acre of sugar-cane. 5 00 2d do. 3 00 3d . do. " dip. Best 5 acres of wheat.... 5 00 2d do. .... 3 00 3d do. .... dip. Best 5 acres of corn 2d do 3d do. Best 5 acres of turnips 2d do 3d do. Best 5 acres of beets 2d do 3d do Best 5 acres of carrots 2d do. 3d do. Best 1 acre of white beans. 2d do. 3d do. / Best 1 acre of peas 2d do |