Show DRY FARMERS MEET Owners of Arid Farms Perfect an Organization Salt Lake Cltyrho farmers of Utah who are endeavoring to yearly raise bumper emits without the aid of Irrigation met In Salt Lake City on the 9th and perfected an orgnuiza i tlon the officers celected being President J Pro L A Merrill i first vice president J W Paxman second vice president G I t Farrell third nicoiresldentrWrCrL > Trfrin A com = mlttee has been appointed which Is to be known as an executive committee commit-tee and one person from each county coun-ty will be added as a member p the executive body which will 1 a hand in helping the committee on exhibits ex-hibits for the Transmlssouri Dry Farming congress that Is to meet hereIn here-In October Men from remote parts of Utah were present and there were several Interested in the new method of agriculture agri-culture in attendance from Montana Wyoming Idaho and Nevada An organization for the meeting was perfected at the morning meeting with James G Dufiln as chairman and F M layman Jr as secretary On account of the absence of Governor John C Cutler It was necessary for Secretary Lyman to read the welcome address It extended hearty greetings greet-ings to tho convention dealing with the progress that has been made by the arid farmer in reclaiming largo tracts of hitherto unproductive land commending the work of the dry farmer far-mer praising tho movement that last fall resulted In the organization of the TransmlFsourl Dry Land congress lauding the work done by Utahs representatives rep-resentatives at the first meeting of that congress at Denver eulogizing the labors of Fisher Harris president of the congress congratulating tho Agricultural college the experiment stations the arid experimental farms and the pioneer dry farmers that have been the lenders in driving back the desert and predicting for this brunch of industry a bright future In Utah Tho committee on exhibits for the Dry Farming congress to be held hereIn here-In October Is as follows Prof L A Merrill Salt Lake county James W Paxman Jnali George L Farrell Cache Dan Hanson Sevier David Holmgren Box Elder John Stevens Agricultural college Utah |