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to get suggestions from the farmers, to find out what they are doing in 

 regard to these things, and they like to exchange these ideas. 



I was very much interested in the remarks of Professor Atkinson to- 

 day, because, as I say, his experiences have taught him about the same 

 lessons that mine have taught me. 



I heard Prof. Chilcott last year in Denver, speak upon a similar sub- 

 ject he was speaking on in this room. But their conditions are altogether 

 different from ours and viewed from a different standpoint. I believe the 

 conditions even in Cache Valley are different from those in Juab County, 

 and all of these conditions must be taken into consideration. And I be- 

 lieve to use the methods they use in Colorado, the Campbell System, would 

 be injurious to us here. For instance that sub-surface idea I feel would 

 be an injury to my land, because it would pack the land, and my land don't 

 need packing. I have to do something to loosen it up rather than to pack 

 it. I believe we should take these things into consideration. That is not 

 a success for Utah land, but it is for the east, and these gentlemen are giving 

 us the benefit of what their experiences over there have been, and the ex- 

 periences they have had in particular localities I can leave — throw them to 

 one side. I am not interested there. I am not very much interested in the 

 paper Prof. Chilcott read. It is all right for Colorado. Many of the points 

 are good for Utah. I have got to sift them out and find out what are good 

 for me, and take only those things I know are suited for conditions in 

 Utah, and there is nobody better prepared to determine the things we want 

 to fnid out than is the experiment station. They have been a fine thing. 

 But I believe the thing we most need today above all other things on the 

 dry farm lands is water. It adds one-fifth to the expense of dry farming 

 to haul water to the land for your animals. That is quite a strain on us, 

 and it is very inconvenient, and I hope that some means may be taken so 

 that we may have aid, that wells will be sunk somewhere in the different 

 localities that will prove to men whether or not water can be had. I would 

 be perfectly willing to spend a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars on a 

 well on our place if I was sure I could get water when I got there. But 

 I don't know that. I think it would be all right for the state, or national 

 government, I don't care which, to demonstrate this fact, so that if we 

 were to dig wells, commence digging wells, we would be sure there was 

 water. This is an important question and I think something can be done 

 in this respect, because it is a serious drawback, and it has something to 

 do with the size of a dry farm. 



I don't wish to weary you. My brother said, when I came up, "Mind 

 what you do — don't take up too much time," and I don't want to. I am 

 glad to be here, to participate in these exercises, and I have attended every 

 meeting and I am going to attend every meeting until the last, because 

 there is money in it for me, and I hope that every dry farmer in Utah, 

 whether he becomes a member of this Congress or not, will put himself 

 in possession of these articles that have been read in our hearing, and di- 

 gest them, make them your own, and glean out those things that are for 

 you, that you are particularly interested in. There are many suggestions 



