It has been a good while since I have heard from
you. I have just written a letter to Uncle Ozem Wooduff & I concluded to write
to you. I have Just sent you a copy of the Deserett News containing the Report of
our annual State agricultural State fair also some preaching at the conference
we are Doing all we can to Encourage Home Manufacturing & agriculture
I sent you papers occasionally but do not know as you got
them for the post Masters frequently steal them we had the best fair
this fall we Ever had in this Territy I have been a member of the
Board of Directors from its first organization. we appoint committees
to examine & award premiums upon evry Branch exhibited at the fair I
Had the first premium awarded me upon the following Article this season
Best fenced & cultivated farm Not Less than 20 Ave $5 Best fencd & cultivated
garden $5. Best Acre of sugar cane $5. Best 3 Acron squashes $2. Best
6 sugar Beets $2. Best quart Bush Beans $2. ^Best 3 Cantilopes $2 Blooded & wooled^ Second Best French Merino Bush $3
second Best 3 watermellons. diploma. 4th Best Apples Diploma. 4th Best grapes diploma
My daughter Bulah Woodruff 9 years old Crozien Needlework Cottan 7th Diploma Our list
of premiums are very Numerous Here the prizes are small we have had a very fruitfull
season in evry thing exept fruit most of which was killed by a hard winter & late
pests when all fruit trees was in Bloom No peaches in this city this
year & but a light crop of Apples & grapes I think we raised a million
It has been a good while since I have heard from
you. I have just written a letter to Uncle Ozem Wooduff & I concluded to write
to you. I have Just sent you a copy of the Deserett News containing the Report of
our annual State agricultural fair also some preaching at the conference
we are Doing all we can to Encourage Home Manufacturing & agriculture
I sent you papers occasionally but do not know as you got
them for the post Masters frequently steal them we had the best fair
this fall we Ever had in this Territy I have been a member of the
Board of Directors from its first organization. we appoint committees
to examine & award premiums upon evry Branch exhibited at the fair I
Had the first premium awarded me upon the following Article this season
Best fenced & cultivated farm Not Less than 20 Ave $5 Best fencd & cultivated
garden $5. Best Acre of sugar cane $5. Best 3 Acron squashes $2. Best
6 sugar Beets $2. Best quart Bush Beans $2. Best 3 Cantilopes $2 Blooded & wooled Second Best French Merino Bush $3
second Best 3 watermellons. diploma. 4th Best Apples Diploma. 4th Best grapes diploma
My daughter Bulah Woodruff 9 years old Crozien Needlework Cottan 7th Diploma Our list
of premiums are very Numerous Here the prizes are small we have had a very fruitfull
season in evry thing exept fruit most of which was killed by a hard winter & late
pests when all fruit trees was in Bloom No peaches in this city this
year & but a light crop of Apples & grapes I think we raised a million
"Letter to Ozem Thompson Woodruff, 18 October 1860," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 30, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/ZVB2