Show ari arid d fa farm r M congress ni the ie congress assembly assembled d io in the s armory hall in the cin commercial lub building in stilt salt lake city tl wednesday lan jan 22 aud and was c called io to order a t 10 A na M by B 0 buffatt bu flum of Wo wyoming ming governor Io vernor cutler cuder of utah wash was J c hosen chosen to preside re si ido 0 it root roo t of S r denver was u made ad e secre secretary tary wa delivered L t by Y the J rev P A Sir likin kin governor cutler belive delivered re d afi an it c address d t alres of welcome in b of JA M the state of utah mayor or bi brans an s r ford in iii behalf of salt la lake k oiin r icy ani W J Ilal loran fres president ident bf of mercial club au aadu dU alie manuud and abd imer 1 I 1 e r r chants ass deia ian 1 governor uter and other pe akeis rs pad paid a high tribute to fisher U harris arris the retiring t dent ehlt for the splendid d eions he had made for the con gross gress and the large and i e P r 6 tentative senta tive attendance he had secured j governor cutler aid said in part the more men and women there ire are in in a community who 0 own wn hornes homes till their own land raise their own stock and train trail their own children the stronger and better will be that comal community unity we are therefore under lasting obligations to those w who ho show us hw how to produce 1 I good harvests on arid land hand and to those who abo legislate r to make the settling tn of such jand and possible As asa a result of the work of this congress s supplemented by the wise acts we bop hopa the pati national 9 C congress will pass for our benefit 1 f t nv we e expect to see homes made on arid wastes for teeming wi will 11 ions john dern of salt sail liike lake city was made permanent chairman and in a neat speech paid a trig tribute I 1 to farming as an industry s saying ay ing that whatever might ma be continued on page G 6 A 4 AV rt arid farm congress continued from page 1 tide the farmer is secure the mines become exhausted the industrial du lu conditions are subject to g eat and sometimes lasting but the man who gets next to the soil is absolutely independent of all ill effects brot about by a financial panic or st stride THE YEAR IN UTAH i J W who sp spoke oke for utah said there has been a great increase in the area of arid land placed under cultivation to the th extent of acres the annual wheat product oj of this tem amounts to bushels to say nothing of the value of the other grains raised dur ing the past year there has been added an additional equipment of one gasoline and fourteen steam plows the X greatest 3 need of the arid farmer is a machine to Z grub and clear the brush land preparatory for plowing th e precipitation dur during i ng the year has been excellent xe ellent I 1 A letter of congratulation r 1 f aiom i om senator reed smoot was read and a tele telegram C ram with cheer and good wishes from senator sutherland A resolution introduced by R tolton of beaver utah indorsing dorsing in the bill of senator SM oot known as senate bill 1543 which increases the number of acres in a homestead in the arid region f from rom to acres was passed and the officers of the be congress were directed to notify the congress of the united states of the action taken prof L A merrill deliver de livere oid d an aa extemporaneous address on the progress of arid and farming in utah ue lie gave ave some interesting reference to arid farming in relation to precipitation he said that it required 1200 pounds of water to ta grow ow one pound of wheat or in an a ere acre inch there would b be e thirteen and a half tons in utah said prof merrill summer lowing fallowing fal has been found to be of the utmost advantage in this state the better results are obtained by fall plowing but not in every case fall plowing should be followed with in the spring the aim is to conserve the moisture that falls upon the lind hind and he urged his audience to pray for less rain in may and june for it had been demonstrated that when the precipitation during those two months wits was extraordinarily heavy the rainfall durin during 1 the rest of the year was light n the speaker liged ta the use of improved machinery chiu ery and suggested 0 that nei neighbors labors ought n to forget M their s i i they had any and tear down do their div division violl fences corn com bin i on the purchase of im plome tits which lie he said had reduced the cost of farming from from to 60 and 75 cents an ac e believed the farmers ought to 0 o get tot together rether ona on a variety of seed for it is is obvious that a uniform standard will command f a better market than will a mixture of varieties joshua Salis burry 0 of cache county one of the veteran dry i fa farmers amers gave a very interesting talk relating his failures and alid successes in dry farming his remarks were punctuated with many humorous expressions and he wits was frequently applauded he basone was one of the first settlers of cache valley and when he heard briaka yo young ung in an early day predict that over on the west the valley there would sometime be extensive wheat fields without irrigation he hd was one of the few that be lieveld it and he was the first one to experiment on it and when he sold his irrigated farm t and bought dry land and be began bean n an operations for dry farming he was derided by nearly everybody and his bishop said bro ther salisbury I 1 fear you will vill have to wear a good many patches on your pants at first he be mot met with fall failures fires but persevered till he succeeded and has prospered to be continued |