Show 1 DRY FARMING fisher harris in defining tho meaning of the dry farming congress now in session in salt lake city pays tribute to the value of farming in these words jt is an axiomatic principle of political economy that the real basis of the permanent and enduring prosperity of a country IR found hi the soil from that source comes the ultimate wealth of nations and back to if goas all tho material of man itla the one everlasting and ing thing remaining when governments have passed away when nations are forgotten peoples dispossessed and monuments drifted into dust the trans massouri dry farming congress wag organized primarily for tho purpose of devising means whereby the cultivatable area of the country might be increased thus adding to the nations happiness and prosperity dry farming means the cultivation of the soil of the arid and semiarid west by means of scientific systems of culture and without irrigation ahe entire practicability of the proposition has been abundantly demonstrated by the work of individuals like burbank campbell farrell soe and others and by the accomplishments lish ments of scientists in charge of state and national nat lonal experiment stations and the department of agriculture at washington no economic question now before the people of the united states Is fraught with greater possibilities bili ties for good than is this one but the scientist and the practical farmer working hand in handler the same result mut be backed up and supported by an intelligent public sentiment which shall in urns crystallize into such state and national legislation as will hasten the end sought this congress brings the subject close home to our people and not only gives them an opportunity for the exercise of their far tamed hospitality but puts them directly in line with this progressive movement which means so much tor the whole country |