Show FARES RET it 1 IH IN 3 Z delegates to the trans missouri dry farming fanning congress talk things over at annual session governor brooks of wyoming chosen a as s next pres dent of Asso associate clat on wh ch Is expected to mater lally aid agricultural industry salt lake city about BOO dele gates were present wednesday morn ing at the opening session of the trans missouri dry farming con pon gress a gathering of notable men who are interested in the reclamation of the arid lands of th west and who ex hect by these meetings to be enabled to gain much practical knowledge that will be of value to the farmer v ho must depend upon the moisture that falls from the sky to bring his yearly harvest to a successful trul tion the congress was called to order by B C buffum of wyoming at 10 clod in the forenoon governor cut ler of utah was chosen to preside and C Q R root of denver was made secretary the on was ered by the rev P A simpkin gov arnor J C cutler delivered an pd ad dress of welcome following an ad dress by mayor john S cransford Bran Drans stord ford the governor gave J P F mcdonald former governor the credit for sug gesting the organization he ile paid a tribute to fisher harria the ing pr president loran ina edilu den W i halloran president of the commercial club and of the jurers and merchants association welcomed the visitors in a pleasing address the convention hall is decorated with dry farm exhibits and many sug cestive banners have been placed upon tte tle wall among the speakers at the opening session was F B linfield of boze doze man mont who reported that there are in montana 20 maybe 30 acres susceptible to tion and the conditions are favor able speaking from the viewpoint of a much very much of the land is only 2 or 2 feet in elevation 4 J W speaking tor for utah said there has been a great increase in the area of arid and lands placed under cultivation to the extent of acres there are axe now in cultivation the annual wheat product of tris system amounts to bushels to say nothing of the value of the other grains potatoes can be successfully grown the state of wyoming said W J rowell now has under cultivation 1500 WO acres of arid lands ulal the hope Is that there will be 10 acres mr nowell said the total area susceptible of cultivation is A letter from E W hoch governor of kansas was read in it the gov hernor stated bis his regret at his inability to attend secretary of the interior james wilson pledged the support of the de apartment part ment to the arid farming secretary wilson dwelt upon the success which had been achieved in texas and discussed the alms of the govern ment in bringing in seeds from for eign countries and breeding new plants here salt lake city the delegates to the trans missouri dry farming con gress on thursday selected officers tor for the next year as follows dent governor B B brooks ov wyo ming first vice president lieutenant governor E A burrell of idaho sec see ond vice president H IV campbell Oam of nebraska third vice president governor george curry of new mex ico and an executive committee con of one member from each state represented A resolution introduced by representative sent senta tive tolton of beaver utah in dorsing the bill of senator smoot known as senate bill 1543 which in creases the number ot of acres in a homestead in the and region from to acres was passed and the officers ot of the congress were directed to notify the congress of the united states of the action taken talen it was unanimously agreed by reso lution that the city securing the next congress must make a guarantee of entertainment fund even as Is re quiren by the american mining con gress the national irrigation asso elation and other similar bodies W M jardine assistant in 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 E C chilcott in charge of the of flee raf f dry land agriculture la in wash iceon D 0 bureau of plant industry read a paper which consumed the better part of an hour mr Chi callcott leott said that arid and farming is now a dem science div T cook of wyoming spoke on drought resisting crops alfalfa and canada field peas he said wera wem excellent forage they drew nitrogen from the air and did not impoverish the land leafed pea fed lambs and pork bring a higher price on the market than the same class of animals teed feed ing on the other grains professor L A merrill delivered an extemporaneous address on the progress of dry farming in utah 1 he i e declared that dry farming is n not a an n experiment but a demonstrated sue cess professor samuel fortier chief of the irrigation investigation bureau ot of plant industry at washington D C delivered an address on the use ot of water in connection with arid farm ing professor fortier deplored the mud slinging between the zionist and the city farmer and he hoped the delegates would do their part to bring about harmony joshua salisbury of the provo district a veteran one of the oldest it if not the oldest arid and land farmers in utah related some of his experiences in dry farming permanent membership one of the most important steps taken by the dry farming congress was the th e adoption at friday Fridays s session of a resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution and a membership fee both affiliated and life the affiliated membership 1 Is 1 a year and the life membership costs 10 resolutions were introduced and adopted thanking the people of salt lake city and the commercial club i and fisher harris the retiring prest dent who has been chosen the execl tive secretary of the coign congress ss extend ing sympathy to 11 II W campbell of lincoln neb the originator inato r of the campbell system and generally con ceded to be the father of arid and land farming wro is ill of pneumonia at his home in lincoln urging the promotion of the work of farmers institutes through local state and national aid declaring that the english language does not contain adjectives sufficient to express the appreciation of the con gress of the entertainment given at the tabernacle on the previous even arg A paper by H ML at balner professor of farm eme hantes at the colorado agricultural college at fort colllns collins was on good roads and the farmer mr bainer s suggestions were of the most in ost practical character he ile declared that the american people lare i are begin ning to realize the necessity of good roads A al hundred miles of earth roads could be laid tor for the cost of ten miles of stone and gravel roads especially where these materials have to be hauled from a distance professor alfred atkinson of the montana experiment station spoke on the control of moisture on the dry farm mr atkinson urged the far mer to fortify himself with the rain fall of one year against the possible coming of a dry season the following year summer fallowing in relation to dry farming in the great basin was tire the subject of an address by professor Protes sol C S in charge of agricultural extension bureau of plant industry washington the subject is a broad one and occupies a prominent place in the work of the arid land farmer in determining whether it Is the part of wisdom to grow crops constantly 0 to summer fallow each alternate year former state senator john barnes of 0 related his experiences in dry farming for twenty years during which time he kept an accurate ac count of all receipts and expenditures beginning in 1887 mr air barnes traced item by item iten the su years do down wn to 1906 A paper by H W campbell as in eluded in the record his ills subject vas was dry farming mr air campbell Is the originator of a system bearing his name of soil culture and Is generally recognized as the pioneer success ful scientific arid land farmer in the world dry farm wheat growing in the great basin was the subject of an in te resting address by J C hogensen agronomist of the agricultural college at logan the size of a dry farm was the topic chosen by I 1 H grace of nephi who has been dry farming for many years it has been mr air grace s expert ence that a farm should not be larger than acres A paper by professor david grif fifths of the office of farm management of the department of agriculture was read by carl F Kelle Kell mati ematt also of washington it had to deal with the prickly pear as a dry land crop it was stated that excellent results had been secured especially in texas the prickly pear Is a fine forage plant tor for cows dr 0 W roberts of north dakota delivered an address on climatic conditions he urged the farmers to apply to the weather bureaus for in formation |