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Forming a State Constitution Raising Agricultural Products True Riches

Brigham Young · 1862 April General Conference · 1862-04-08

Fidelity

◑Contemporaneous report

Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 10, pp. 32-36. Reported by G. D. Watt in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.

Witnesses

Pitman shorthand by G. D. Watt; speaker did not review. BYU ContentDM's item-detail page currently fails to render in modern browsers (loads, then a client-side script redirects to the generic lib.byu.edu collections page; reproduced 2026-06-30, site-wide BYU bug, not link-format specific). Re-promote to preferred/source_url once BYU fixes this.

Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 10, page 32. Currently the only reliably clickable link for this talk; BYU ContentDM is the institutionally preferred citation but its item pages are currently broken client-side (see the BYU witness note).

Collation history

Proofread against the source text.

Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body already clean, no changes needed.

Collated word-by-word against the original scan.

Heavyweight pass: source_url and JD 10:32-36 citation cross-checked against indexes/jod-page-index.json; body collated word-for-word against historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com raw HTML (Tuesday, April 8 morning session, following Erastus Snow's remarks on seed preservation). Boundaries clean. Confirmed distinct from Young's other three discourses in this conference.

Corrections

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