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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



treme as some people might suppose they would be. I remember very 

 well, when I think of that matter, that while I lived in Utah, in Cache 

 valley, I traveled about three or four hundred miles south, into San Pete 

 county, and found we had the same kind of climate in Cache County as 

 they had in San Pete County, and yet they were three or four hundred 

 miles south. I figure on this basis, in reference to climatic conditions, that 

 when a person travels a thousand feet in the air he is doing about the 

 same thing as traveling from three to five hundred miles north. So that 

 you can see that is one reason why, even though we are up north, we can 

 grow crops. 



There is another thing about that. Right across the line between the 

 United States and Canada, I find, right along the line, just above the Mon- 

 tana line, there are a great number of farmers in Canada that are making a 

 success out of farming. I .have not been able to understand yet why it is 

 that an imaginary line, just above that line there are hundreds and thous- 

 ands of people that are farming successfully, while so many people on 

 this- side of the line it seems can't make a success of farming at all. I ran 

 across the same thing in North Dakota on the Great Northern. The 

 same thing seems to be true of the imaginary line between North and 

 South Dakota. Out in Williams County. North Dakota, there has been 

 several thousand of people come in there and settled up that whole coun- 

 try — all farming successfully, but right over the line in Montana it was 

 too dry and too cold — they could not farm. It is higher over there. I have 

 not been able to figure out why it is an imaginary line of that kind makes 

 such a difference in climatic conditions. One of the things we are trying 

 to do is to convince people that it does not make any difference; that the 

 ground is just as rich, the amount of moisture the same, and if they will 

 follow the same plans they will get just as good crops; and, more than 

 that, we are going to do the very best we can to show them liow to get 

 those results. (Applause.) 



-CHAIRMAN DERN: The secretary informs me that the member of 

 the Executive Committee from Colorado has prepared a paper and is not 

 present to read it, and has sent it to him. He will now present it. 



SECRETARY ROOT: This paper is from Prof. W. H. Olin, of 

 Colorado. It is on the subject of 



DRY FARMING IN EASTERN COLORADO IN 1907. 



]\Iany new settlers unfamiliar with soil or crop conditions in eastern 

 Colorado arrived late in the season, and the dry year discouraged some 

 and sent them back to "their wife's people," caused many of them to have 

 crop failures in some one line, but the experience of older settlers, who 

 understood the local conditions, enabled them to get some feed crops to 

 help them tide through. 



While some farmers have suffered losses from hail, drought, and 

 other causes of crop failure, yet no crop has suffered a total loss in this, 

 the closest year eastern Colorado has known for some time. 



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