Show URY FARMERS am ZION delegates to the trans missouri dry farming congress talk things over at annual session governor brooks of wyoming chosen as next president of bf association which is expected to mator mater I 1 lally aid agricultural industry salt lake city about delegates were present wednesday morning at the opening session of the trans trails missouri dry farming congress a gathering of notable men who a are r c in interested te rested in the reclamation of the arid lands of th west arad and who expect by these meetings tone tobe enabled to gain much practical knowledge that will be of value to thi tho tamer farmer who must depend upon the moisture that falls from the sky to bring his yearly harvest to a successful fruition tho the congress was called to order by B C buffum of wyoming at 10 in the forenoon governor C cutler t of utah was chosen to preside and 0 n R root of denver was made secretary the invocation ered by the jhb rev P A governor J C cutler delivered ag an address df d t welcome following an address by mayor john S fi ransford rang ford the governor gave J F mcdonald former governor the credit tor for suggesting tho the organization r he paid a tribute to fisher harria the retiring president W J halloran president of the commercial club and of the manufacturers and merchants association welcomed the visitors in a pleasing address the convention hall Is decorated with dry farm exhibits and many suggestive banners bannera have been placed upon the th e wall among the speakers at the opening ses session slon was F B linfield of bozeman mont who reported that there ther 0 are in montana maybe 30 acres susceptible to cultivation and the conditions are favorable speaking from the viewpoint of I 1 1 1 a much very much 0 of f the elevation land Is only 2 2000 or 20 2560 ha feet feel 1 in J W speaking for 4 utah said there has been a great increase ln n the area of arid lands placed under cultivation to the extent of acres there are now in cultivation the annual wheat product of this system amounts to bushels to say nothing of the value of the other grains potatoes can be successfully grown the state of wyoming said caldw W J adwell now has under cultivation ilBO OOOO 60 acres of arid lands alti ulti the hope Is that there will be jl acres mr air nowell said the total area susceptible of cultivation Is A letter from E W hoch governor cf kansas was read in it the governor stated his regret it at his inability to att attend secretary of the interior james wilson pledged the support of the department part ment to the arid farming secretary wilson dwelt upon the success which chich had been achieved in texas and discussed thealus the alms of the government in bringing in seeds from foreign countries and breeding new plants here salt lake city the delegates to the athe trans missoura Misso url dry farming congress on thursday selected of officers ficera for the next year as follows president governor B D B brooks of wyoming first vice president lieutenant governor B E A burrell of idaho see sec and vice president 11 W campbell af pf f nebraska third vice president governor po vernor george curry of new mexico and an executive committee con fisting of one member from each state represented A resolution introduced by representative senta tive tolton of beaver utah in dorsing the b bill III of senator smoot known as senate bill 1543 which increases the number of acres in a homestead in the arid region from AGO to acres was passed and the officers of the congress were directed to notify the congress of the united states of the action taken it was unanimously agreed by resolution that the city securing the next congress must make a guarantee of entertainment fund even as Is required by the american mining congress the th e national irrigation association cia tion and other similar bodies W M jardine Jard lne assistant in n tha office of grain investigation of the department of agriculture read a paper on the various kinds of grains that were best to be used J E U C chilcott in charge of the 0 office N fice of dry land agriculture M 1 W icah h ington D C bureau of P plant i a n t adulf industry Y reid read a paper which consumed tho the better part of an hour mr air callcott said that arid farming fanning Is now a demonstrated science dr V T cook of 0 wyoming spoke on drought resisting crops alfalfa and canada field peas lie he said wei excellent elent forage they drew nitrogen from rom the air and did not impoverish the land pea fed lambs and aad pork bring a higher price on the market than the same class of animals feed ing on the other grains professor L A merrill delivered on an extemporaneous address on tha progress of dry farming in utah declared that dry farming Is not an experiment but a demonstrated success professor samuel fortier Fort ler chief of the irrigation investigation bureau ot of plant indu industry Atry at Wash washington inkton D C delivered an address on the use ot water in iii connect connection lon with arid farm in lag g professor fortier deplored tho hnud mud slinging between the tia t and the city c lt farmer ft and ho he hoped the delegates would do their part to bring about abou 1 harmony jashua salisbury of bof the prokp district a veteran vete b no 0 of f the oldest if not the be oldest arid land far farmers th ers in utah related some of his experiences in dry farming permanent Mern membership hers hip one ond of the most important steps taken by the mhd dry farming farming congress was the th e adoption at fridays session of a resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution and a member membership s hip fe fee e both affiliated and life the affiliated membership ship Is 1 1 I a 9 year and the life membership costs 10 resolutions were introduced and adopted than thanking lInK the people of 8 salt a lt lake alt city and the co club and fisher harris Harlst the be retiring president who has been chosen the executive secretary of the congress extend r ing s sympathy y to H W campbell campb ell of In colp neb the originator af pf of the campbell ampbell system and generally con ceded to be bd the father of arid land farming who ishii Is of pneumonia athis at his home in lincoln urging the promo promotion pro tion t of the work of farmers farmer s institutes through local state and n national at ional ald aid declaring that the english language does not contain adjectives sufficient to express the appreciation of the can arn gress grebb of the entertainment given ati at the tabernacle on the previous oven ing f Apa A paper by H ml balner professor of farm eme hanics at the colorado agricultural colie college ge at fort collins was on good roads and the farmer mr badners Bal ners suggestions were of the most practical character he decla declared that the american people are b eian f ning to realize the necessity of good 1 roads A hundred miles of earth roads could be laid for the cost of ten miles allesi of stone and gravel roads especially especial lyl i where these materials have to be hauled from a distance professor alfred atkinson of t the he montana experiment station spoke on the control of moisture on the ahe dry farm mr atkinson urged the fare far mer to fortify himself with the rain i fall of one year against the possible cominar 4 a dry season the following year su suu ir fallowing following Fal lowing iu relation to f dry in the great basin was was the subject of an address by professor Profess oil C S in charge of agricultural extension bureau of plant industry washington the subject Is a broad one and occupies a prominent place in im the work of the arid I 1 land and farmer la in i determining whether it la Is the part of wisdom tb grow crops constantly or to iok summer fallow each alternate year year former state senator john barnes barnea of lie related his experiences ins IN dry farming for or twenty years during which time he kept an accurate uc no count of all receipts and expenditures beginning in mr barnes barncs traced trace d item by item the successive deais years down to 1906 I 1 A paper by 11 II W Campb campbele elJ was included in the record d his subject was dry farming mr air campbell Is tho them th o originator of a system bearing his name of soil culture and Is generally recognized as the pioneer success f ful scientific arid land farmer in thor ther world dry farm wheat Grow growing ingin in we the great basin was the subject of an interesting te address by J C hogensen agronomist of the agricultural college at fogah the size of a dry farm was the topic chasen by L I 1 11 grace of nepal who has been dry fari farming nine for many years ye ars it has been mr graces experience that a farm should not be larger than acres A paper by pr professor fessor david grita fifths of the office of farm management of if the th e department of agriculture was read by carl F Kelle matl miti also or of washington it had to deal with the y prickly pear as a dry land crop it was stated that excellent results had been secured especially in texas tho the prickly pear Is a fine forage plant plan t fot for cows dr 0 W Jl roberts of worth north dakota delivered an address on climatic conditions condition S lie ho urged the farmers farmer sto to apply to the weather bureaus for in n formation formati cn |