In 1898, Mr. N. Wadsworth wrote in Lincoln, Nebraska's The Courier:
Wherever a company of Mormons were halted only for a short time, gardens were made and the carding, spinning and weaving of cloth from the wool clipped from the sheep, was carried on. They were strictly organized under leaders. Over every ten wagons was a captain of ten; over fifty, a captain of fifty, and each hundred had a captain of hundred. In addition to horses, cattle and sheep, they had hogs, chickens, and geese. For chicken feed they carried sunflower seed, which had been prepared in quantities at the different posts to which they were dispersed after the burning of their temple at Nauvoo in 1846. Their camp fire beds made a rich soil for the growth of the sunflower, which sprang up everywhere in their path from seed accidentally or purposely scattered where they camped. In...
