| Show jiMERS j fARMERS NAME Resolution n Introduced Changing Title of Congress to Arid rid Farmers INTERESTING PAPERS M MANY KNY With Problems to n he be Ell i T urr countered In Ulah mill and Ilie 1110 We Wc t l of ot stereopticon lIh the Introduction views UKI to Illustrate lecture a II delivered night before tho the Dry DIY Farming tot t congress tho the delegates were treated to toa a real reat surprise s The Tho was tho the lost last of oC the evening program and wn tuns nn MI the tho subject ot of t Climatic and Soil Boll Conditions of ot the tho Great l Mains Proto Prot Driggs who delivered It I it IS w In cargo of o tho the physical labora Inborn laboratory laboratory of ot tho the bureau bur of plant Industry tory tor U li S department of ot agriculture Tho Cho lecturer showed charts of conditions In Inman inmany man many parts of cC the west and gave It as bur conclusion that there thero arc are thren three certain things In to the tho world taxes ta s death lie no wished to add the third to the two already alread Tee reI In the old adage The lIt of ot thc o evening oven In was war on the subject of ot the tho prickly pear P ar as a II dry find Imd crop It was by b Prof David Griffith of oC the U S department of ot and It was read r Ui In hla hili nb II b sg since ce by y Prof l Karl P The TM paper held that prickly pears when w mixed with make moko an ox ex feed teed for Cor milk n k cows COWl In particular lar hr and In general The Tho paper drill dt ls Is with demonstrations In bt Texas showing yield afield 1 of 23 13 tons to the he acre Pot per year At the conclusion if or this paper Prof dell delly delivered ered a lecture e of oC his lb own on the sub subject subJect jeet of oC bacteriology dealing with the tho relation between bacteria and nitrogen In M the thc soil Pr Dr paper papel on it weather condl the tIna tens was 18 ordered Incorporated Into rord all aN n the tho doctor was absent on ori account ac account account count of Illness A GON SESSION SESSIO John Johll F Barnes was the first speaker or Ih afternoon II session and ills his hi pa n pr an exceptionally Interesting one ono MH W ii n th the subject of ot expense C In ht op tiMing Muting U IL dry r farm tarm His Ills account was ift k to 1637 1557 and showed the H I for each yeas years yeal operations oI Farm to land tillers listened with marked Interest and und the talk was at Its conclusion Prof hof chairman of ot the com cony mill on resolutions Ic road read the Hi l e which under wider suspension of ot the nibs wore I Resolved article y 3 of the con of oC the Dry Dr Farming congress be he amended to rend renda M a follows Delegates to this congress shall be beas as 5 follows The Tho governor of each state and ter territory tery may ma appoint 10 and not more thin than 20 delegates Tho mayor of ot each oily It t and the tho president I of each town board boaro of oC trustees of ot any Incorporated town or city live five and not more than 10 te delegates The county count commissioners of each county countr Ave and not more than 10 dele delegates gates gale and state agricultural asso cUllom not more than five delegates each Railroad r companies not more marc than tour lour delegates delegato ca h Chambers of commerce commercial clubs dubs and other commercial bodies one ono delegate elegate for tor each active and anti certified lied Ilea membership United States Staten senators and congress congressmen men governors of states officers of Mats agricultural colleges officers of vale date universities engaged In to agricultural agricultural tural work officers of ot the United States Sin tes and an state experiment stations strata state engineers and members of state land boards by IW virtue of ot their position will willbo willbe willbe be bo entitled to membership In tho the con congress gags pesa Each FACh delegate delegato upon his appointment according to the foregoing clauses clause shall become ox a member of this In addition the delegates appointed according to the foregoing clauses of ot this article there thero shall shan exist un en nf af OUsted membership of this lilt congress said aid sal 1 persons constituting tills this affiliated l 1 membership to bo be assessed nn an annual fee tee of oC 1 In addition to this affiliated member membership mom ber ship iMp there th rc shall exist a membership known as ns life lite membership In this con cun contress contress tress and for each ach life membership a single tingle fee foo co of 10 shall be ho paid That such aforesaid affiliated anti and life lite memberships shall have hn ve all tho the etes se s or of a delegate to tho the meetings of I this congress and shall further receive I lam from ram thu flan secretary I from time to time I Such noli bulletins bulled s or other information ns lie lienay II nay Bay ta ho 1 0 printed by hy this congress for fur circulation among Its delegates and members which Include to each member and delegate ta an nu official copy COP COPet et of the llie proceedings of the tho meeting of ot tacit each congress The provisions of ot this shall Mt het n t be construed to lifted affect In any way waytie tie ike provisions of ot article VI YI of or the tho con CONVENTIONS THANKS That the tho thanks of tho Dry Farming Fanning congress b bo expressed ex to Its retiring president Fisher FUher Harris of or Salt SnIt Lake City CIl for hla hi untiring efforts In behalf of ot this Resolved That the tho thanks of or this congress Bs are aro helb tendered to tho the City of Salt Bull hake her people tho the Con Com Commercial mercial club and public plena PI fur for the unusual hospitable entertainment of ot the tho members of ot the tho congress Resolved That the English language falls tais to supply tho thin necessary II adjectives to 10 properly proper express our feelings of M nn mip for thin the entertainment i given iven at nt the Die tor for the tho of If the tho delegates to this emigres congress AS TO INSTITUTES Whereas Farmers I rs Institutes are a powerful iii factor In the education of lit the tho farmer In the encouragement of thin adoption of be II It That runt the time Dry DIy Farming congress shall In hr every jel practical manner foster mill lull tho the holding of ot In III slates and amid localities where soil Roll culture In eMaI lu to farm operation and null that In stolen state where whore no state Unto appropriations am a n available for tor 01 this thU tits thin con cau congress gross gress shell to tl such fluch through the old aid of or local and anal national II I depart FOIL FOU F Mil MS m Whereas The people of ot tho the west mire are Indebted Inde tod to the tho omen men who nn an giving their lives to tel tho the of or scientific methods of M thu aid districts through soil vulture n of It ii and i rei breeding and Whereas Prof Irot It 11 W originator of the tho Campbell system RY of ut Holl culture Is 18 of ut bocHum of o hl his in li locution tn to iii of oC miry dry funning In Ili gl mind Prof Prot Campbell Is IB prevent prevented ed Pd front from attending thin meeting pf if It the thu es because l of or therefore bu bo It That Iho tin of nt tho the ply Dry 1 1 Fanning s in to to 10 wire willi the tho sympathy of this thin con re as H to Imf Prof en III B KAMI NAMI Tint Prof Merrill then thole offered the llie follow followIng Ing which were to the tho on 1 the terns term t dry farming docH not represent accurately limo thu tit fac factors tors t r mud imd of or farming fa without Irrigation In III arid MI an 1 d a hl Ills mis IH and Wh r 1110 term noli culture or em mining farming IH is ablo to all properly property conducted farm fann fanning log ing In Resolved that this congress adopt the t mime Hama lI rno arid farming or O farming for tor the 1110 production of ut crops without Irrigation In to arid or ur arId districts and amid tho the name of tit this tills con congress congress gress bo he changed to the tho Aril congress Whereas tho time successful development deelo of farming without out Irrigation primarily lrI rn II 11 I Upon the establishment of ot principles on which the thc farm farmer er or may limy vest his timid and Whereas such Retention Investigations a cannot IMS ho carried on nn properly by private enterprise and the tho different III rte rent lOur states stains differ In their climatic mod soil sell conditions and therefore that special attention be given KIen to the tho conditions Vr prevailing in each therefore that tho the congress favors fa ora tho the es cs by stalo legislative notion netlon of experimental farms for the study stull of fanning arming without Irrigation such stations to bo be under the direction of tho the respective state experiment sta stations DRY FARM WHEAT AI Prof Proto J C of the tho Utah Agricultural college the Iho sub subject subJect of o Dry D Firm Farm Wheat In the tho Great Basin Bailin He lie reviewed re lowed conditions In III Utah that In III 1901 1907 Utah pro lire produced product duct mares acres of wheat which pro produced produced produced bushels or an all average of 15 bushels to time the acre nere We Wo must grow a I variety var ty of on our soils solis he hI said Thu Th kind Lind that will trill grow row the tho most moI bushels per Br acre Is the tho Important kind to Ia discover He lie advocated the press ples drill In preference to 10 broadcast sowing anti and October seeding OF S R II n Grace of spoke on the tho proper size for tor the dry dr farm lie He said that his land hind yielded him 25 bushels to the acre and he sold tho he crop for fol 72 2 cents per bushel while It cost co t him 35 85 cents to produce It He Ile advocated state plan of aiding dry farming Uy Dy U boring for fOl wells so M as all to provide water for culinary purposes rued and declared that nil all farmers should carefully study tho the literature about tho farm arm and tho the re ro results ie suits of or experiments However ho he declared it is much better bettel to stay lay by byan b ball an all old practise thano than i o adopt a new nee ne theory theor until It Is l tilly proven to be he good goodIn In closing the tho afternoon John Henry Smith made n a brief appeal to all dele delo delegates gates to take out a II lit or 01 annual mem mom membership membership o |
