The Brigham Young Center

President's Office
G. S. L. City  April 14th  1858

Bishop D. Evans,

Dear Brother:

Inasmuch as many families are taking up a temporary residence in your ward, and ceased their farming operations elsewhere, it will be manifest to you that it is necessary, they go to work and put in all the crop they can, and so that every foot of farming land is used to the very best possible advantage, I have to suggest that you divide up your farms in small lots among those who are best prepared with implements and teams, and see that they do their farming in the `garden style',  that is, bestow as much attention and care upon it as men generally do in their gardens, by that means they will raise as much from five acres as is usually done from twenty.

Your Bro. in the Gospel

Brigham Young