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EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. 
UTAH AGRICULTURE. 
Salt Lake City, Utah—The spring, up to the middle of May, was very 
propitious for our seeds, and fine rains, interspersed with fine weather, gave 
everything such a start that the grasshoppers or locusts could not make much 
headway in their destructive warfare; but since that date a dry spell has set 
in, and these insects have flourished and grown prodigiously. Our citizens in 
various parts of the Territory set to work, digging ditches, driving the “ hop- 
pers” in, and then burying them; also driving them into creeks, having traps 
or baskets, gunny-sacks,or netting placed to catch them, and then burying them. 
By these methods many millions have been destroyed. On one small stream 
there were caught, to my knowledge, twenty bushels a day, about the size of 
house-flies. But nevertheless, they still crowded the gardens, the fields, and 
thoroughfares, and have done considerable damage in various places. I presume 
the breadth of land put in cultivation this spring is at least double that of any 
previous year, and as there are no grasshoppers in the north part of the Terri- 
tory, (though very thick in the south,) we have hopes of raising sufficient to 
victual us. The grasshoppers have used me and my garden pretty badly. 
Have saved nothing but peas and squashes, and my trees have suffered consid- 
erably from them. They commenced to fly ten days ago, taking a south- 
easterly course. 
Utah county, Utah--The prospect of our fruit crop is fair, although we 
have had myriads of grasshoppers. ‘They have destroyed much of the crops, 
many of our farmers warring with them, and burying them in the ground, &c.; 
Mr. A. H. Scott, with the help of his family, having bagged and buried about 
80 bushels, and he now expects to make quite a crop of wheat. We take 
pleasure in acknowledging the regular receipt of monthly reports, which are 
perused by members of the club with profit and satisfaction. At our meeting 
last evening Mr. Charles Twelves brought in a sample of green peas, from seed 
forwarded by you this spring ; the name is Advance, a sweet, excellent growing 
pea. On June 1 last, the same gentleman brought forward a sample ‘of the 
Philadelphia: Early, ready for use; they do well here. * * * HLA. 
Cheever, of this place, has grown the Excelenta strawberry, of large size and 
good flavor, 25 berries weighing one pound. 
COTTON. 
Craven county, N. C—There has been quite a falling off in the amount of 
cotton planted this year, compared with 1867, in this county, owing to the fact 
that farmers failed to grow sufficient breadstuffs last season for their support. 
Attention has been turned almost entirely to the culture of corn, field peas, 
potatoes, wheat and rye ; consequently only about one-third of the land planted 
in cotton last year has been devoted to that crop in this section the present 
season. The inability to feed their animals, from the want of grain, the absolute 
necessity of making something to eat, the very low price at which cotton sold 
during most of the last season, and the fear that Congress at a late period of 
the present session would re-enact a tax upon the cotton crop, together with the 
impossibility of farmers procuring funds to enable them to purchase supplies, 
and the searcity of horses and mules, have operated greatly to deter the farmers 
of the State from attempting to cultivate cotton on a large scale. 
AFFAIRS IN TEXAS. 
Nueces county, Texas——The enhanced value of wool, and the great demand 
for beef cattle for export, have had a tendency to turn all planters to stock- 
