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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



MR. WALKER: What is the average rainfall on that land? 



MR. MERRILL: The average rainfall at Nephi, Juab County, has 

 been, for some twenty-one years, about 18 inches. Last year it was 

 slightly in excess of t\mt. 



MR. GRACE: Eighteen inches, did you say, was the average rain- 

 fall? About 13 inches, I think, is the average rainfall. The average of the 

 state is 13 inches. 



MR. MERRILL: I am willing to bet Mr. Grace (and I am not a 

 betting man, either) half of that farm we have over there. 



MR. GRACE: It is all right just as it is, anyway.- 



MR. MADSEN (Jenson, Utah): What has been the most successful 

 plow — the mold-board plow or the disc plow? 



MR. MERRILL: We are using entirely the disc plow. 



MR. MADSEN: Disc plows? You find them most profitable, do 

 you ? 



MR. MERRILL: We are using the disc plow; yes, sir. (Laughter.) 

 We have used the mold-board plows. 



MR. HALL (Weber County, Utah) : What method do you use in 

 planting your wheat? How do you plant it? 



MR. MERRILL: This is stealing all of my thunder for tomorrow, 

 I say that we use a disc press drill. The only reason for using the disc 

 press drill is because we believe that where the ground is new and there 

 is bound to be more or less litter, some brush in the ground, you can 

 get the seed sown more uniformly by using the disc press drill and put 

 the seed down to a depth where you find moisture. Where it is four or 

 five inches thick, we put the seed down below that, and if the moisture 

 is five or six inches thick we try to go on down. 



MR. HALL: How is that done — with horse power? 



MR. MERRILL: Yes; .we are doing our drilling with horse power. 



A DELEGATE: What is coal worth where you plow for fifty cents 

 an acre? 



MR. MERRILL: It costs us five and a half per ton. We used slack 

 and run of mine coal during the past season, and found we got practi- 

 cally as much heat out of it, and it is practically as good for our purposes 

 as any. (Applause.) ^ 



CHAIRMAN DERN: Gentlemen, unless someone else wishes to 

 address the convention at this time, our program for the evening will 

 be closed. Before we adjourn, the Secretary has an announcement to 

 make. 



SECRETARY ROOT: I would like to say that those bringing cre- 

 dentials will kindly return them tomorrow early to the Credential Com- 

 mittee, so that they can make their report. Kindly get these in early. 



With the permission of the chair, I would like to say that those 

 who have resolutions to offer, as already mentioned, we ask that they 

 come in, and that they will be taken and referred to the Resolutions Com- 

 mittee, and they can be taken up at their proper time. ^ 



