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of the United States. Every foot that can be watered is being turned by the 
plough. There are now fifty-three ditches in use in this county, their aggregate 
length being 147 miles, at a cost of $91,400, and if the cost of dams, breakages, 
repairs, &c., was estimated it would swell the amount to over $100,000. The 
actual number of acres already ploughed, is 21,150. Considering the insolation 
and newness of the country, and that not a foot can be cultivated without being 
irrigated, I think it will be hard to find a parallel. On the first day of June, 
1867, there had been entered and pre-empted at the land office in the territory 
400,000 acres, and a little over 100,000 are cultivated by “Spanish grant” 
holders; and about 50,000 acres are cultivated where the land is unsurveyed 
and unentered. So that there are nearly 600,000 acres now under the plough 
in the Territory. 
CHICKEN CHOLERA. 
Leake County, Mississippi.—tn the May and June report, 1867, I find on page 
216, an inquiry about “chicken cholera.”” The disease has been here for the 
last twelve months. I have used “Barton’s preventive for hog cholera,” 
(omitting the salt,) and find that it acts like a charm. Mix this medicine with 
corn-meal two or three times a week. Any medicine that will prevent “hog 
cholera’’ will prevent the “chicken cholera.” The spirits of turpentine is a 
cure if taken in time, and no doubt would be a preventive. ‘These two pre- 
ventives, given in moderation, I recommend; the turpentine in quantities of 
from two to five drops to the chicken. : 
Fremont County, Iowa—For the last two years my chickens have been dying 
of cholera; even the turkeys have died the same way. When I notice the hens 
begin to droop and look sleepy, I give them three or four tea-spoon’s full of 
strong alum-water, and repeat the next day. I also mix the feed, (say corn- 
meal,) with strong alum-water, feeding twice a day for two or three days, after- 
wards, once a week. Since I have practiced the above I have not lost any. 
A correspondent from Spring Valley, Iowa, sends us the following remedy 
for chicken cholera: “Take, say two eggs, a table-spoonful of finely pulverized 
alum, and a sufficient quantity of flour to make a thin paste, and force the 
chicken or turkey to swallow a portion of the mixture, and there are two chances 
to one that it will recover. I have used this remedy for two years with good 
success. I have also found it necessary, as a preventive, to use more or less 
alum in their feed, once a day when the disease prevails. _Fowls should never 
have access to slop or swill-tubs, or any other kinds of sour food.” 
GRASSHOPPERS. 
Great Salt Lake City, U. T—This summer, in the northern portion of the 
Territory, the citizens have been greatly harassed by grasshoppers. Eggs 
were deposited in Cache county -by some that came last fall. Those eggs ger- 
minated this spring, and millions of grasshoppers appeared. ‘The towns of 
Logan, Hiram, and Wellsville, have had their field crops totally destroyed ; 
some other of the towns in that county have suffered some. About six weeks 
ago many of them travelled into the Bear Lake region, (north,) but returned 
and have been travelling south, visiting many places in their journey. The 
settlements in Weber county have suffered. In Davis and Salt Lake counties 
wheat, &c., was rather too far advanced for them, but corn, carrots, cabbage, 
potatoes, &c., they attacked with a gusto. 
On Saturday, July 28, the air was literally filled with something with life, 
too high for the naked eye to discern, but the glass revealed that they were 
grasshoppers. In the evening many of them had located in the southeastern 
portion of this city, and on Sunday, 29th, they commenced to work. Since 
