2nd [FIGURES] I wrote A long letter to Freedom & Shuah Moulton
I Recieved the 24 No o[f] vol X of the Millennial star of Dec 15th
it was truly an interesting paper it contained interesting letters
from the valley of the Salt Lake the following is an Extract from A
letter written by P. P. Pratt in August of 1848 "We are blessed in
gardens, in wheat, in corn And in all things I have set my hands
unto. I have raised some sixty bushels of good wheat without
Irrigations A few bushels of rye & oats, And my corn in the field looks
as well as any corn I ever saw in the states, the wheat crop exceeds
all expectation. Oats do better than in the States, say 60 bushels to
one of sowing on sod ground every kind of vegetable suited to the
northern latitudes does well. Levi Hancock sowed Eleven pounds wait
of calafornia wheat on the 14th April And reaped twenty two bushels
the latter part of July. He sowed half a bushel of common English
wheat on An Acre And A half And reaped upwards of twenty bush-
els's one grain of seven eared wheat produced seventy two ears. Barley
that was sown ripened And was reaped And carried off, the land then
was irrigated And produced from the roots A fresh crop four times
the quantity of the first crop. Oats that were sown produced a
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