Great Salt Lake City, Feb. 25, 1860. To the Citizens of Washington Co. We embrace the opportunity afforded us by the return of the Hon. Jacob Hamblin to address you a few lines in relation to your agricultural pursuits. The president and Board, as well as the members, of the Agricultural So- ciety feel a deep interest in your industrial enterprises, & especially in the production of cotton, which is a staple very much needed, and as a home production will scarcely rank second to ...

and your manner of management, until you become master of the art of raising cotton by irrigation. Your attention to the culture of indigo, madder, & tobacco is also respectfully recommended. Your success in the cultivation of the Sorghum sucre, or Chinese sugar cane, appears to be unrivalled in these mountains. We recommend the propriety of some of your well-informed brethren visiting the various settle- ments, and delivering public as well as private in- struction upon the subject, and stirring the brethren up on the necessity for, and the best manner of, rais- ing cotton, that we ...

The Board will award about 260 dollars, in 20 premiums, for cotton, varying from 30 to about 5 dollars each, on fields varying from half an acre to ten acres each; also about 90 dollars as preminum for tobacco, and about 50 dollars for dye-stuffs. We forward with this, a number of circulars of the Board, from which you will see the recom- mendation of the parent society, of the organization of branch societies. It is our wish that you or- ganize a society in your county. The Com- mittee to make the award or ...

revelations of the Lord, is a high and exalted mission. The choicest wines and most delicious fruits of the earth are produced in climates similar to your own. We wish, after the organisation of your County Society, that the officers whom you may elect, be instructed to report your proceedings. Thomas Bullock Secretary Edw Hunter President W Woodruff Director Geo. A. Smith Historian C. J. C. ...