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Show DRY FARM QUESTION One of the Biggest Confronting the Present Generation. Gov. Norrls of Montana, Says Arid Land Agriculture Means Larger Development of West and Prosperity to Millions. "Dry farming is a big question one of tho biggest tho present generation will bo called upon to consider. It mcnnB nn Increased prosperity to arid regions, rural homos for thoao in congested con-gested centers, occupation for tho unemployed, un-employed, food for the hungry. It menns wealth and hnpplnosp for thousands now living and millions yet unborn." This significant statement was mado by Gov. Edwin L. Norrls of Montana, president of the Dry Farming Farm-ing congress, during tho address bo-fore bo-fore tho Nationnl Irrigation congress at Spokane. In tho course of his address, ad-dress, Gov. Norrls said: "I am not unmindful of tho fact that to those not familiar with conditions In the semi-arid west, it may npponr that dry farming is entirely foreign to tho subjects under consideration hero. Such, however, Is not tho fact. Dry farming is becoming ono of tho most important and far reaching ques- liW i& Jlfl Wheat Grown on a Dry Farm. tlons tho west will bo cnllod upon to consider. Familiarity with conditions brings tho conviction that Irrigation and dry farming will bo twin factors in promoting development In all sections sec-tions whoro tho natural rain fall Is not Bufilcicnt to produco crops. "It is a woll known fact that the population Is rapidly increasing nnd that both tho homo nnd foreign demands de-mands becomo larger each year. The tlmo when tho question of feeding tho multitude will bo of serious moment mo-ment docs not seem far away. At no distant dnto, tho demand will bo greater than the production which can come from tho irrigated lands of tho seml-nrid regions and tho naturally watered lands In the rain bolt. If this demand Is supplied, then tho production produc-tion to supply It must come from tho dry farmed lands. "Other crops of Yflluo can bo pro duced as successfully and profitably as wheat, under like conditions. Dry farming Is therefore no unimportant question. It Is n big question ono of tho biggest the present generation will be cnllcd upon to consider. It means an increased prosperity to arid regions, rural homes for those In congested con-gested centers, occupation for tho unemployed, un-employed, food for tho hungry. It means wealth and happiness for thousands thou-sands now living and millions yet unborn. un-born. "Tho nmount of land which may bo Irrigated is, howover, limited by tho water Bupply and the cost of reclamation. reclama-tion. When every avallnblo second foot of water has been appropriated and applied to land that will Justify tho cost of reclamation, and performs thereon the highest possible duty, there will remain millions of acres of |