20G DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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PROF. CHILCOTT: I would like to announce that the Committee 

 on Resolutions will meet at nine o'clock in the morning, at the Commercial 

 Club rooms. 



On motion duly seconded the Congress adjourned until nine o'clock 

 tomorrow morning, January 25th, 1908. 



SATURDAY, JANUARY 25th, 1908. 

 (Fourth Day.) 



MORNING SESSION. 



The Congress was called to order at ten o'clock a. m. by Hon. G. J. 

 McCabe, of Tombstone, Arizona, presiding. 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: Ladies and Gentlemen: I feel it a great 

 honor this morning to preside over the deliberations here today, and I 

 have been requested by the President, Mr. Fisher Harris, to take charge 

 of the chair. I assure you on behalf of Arizona that when I get home 

 it will give me great pleasure to announce that this Congress has 

 seen fit to give me the honor to preside at our last deliberations. 



We have a program for today which I feel ought to be the most in- 

 teresting of any day, according to the men who are to address you, and 

 I feel and want to say right here that Mr. Thomas Smith, the gentleman 

 who has been instrumental in having the exhibits before you, should have 

 our appreciation for his endeavor, and I would like to say before this Con- 

 gress adjourns I would like to see them vote Mr. Thomas Smith a vote of 

 thanks for his industry in bringing about the exhibit. 



I believe before starting in with our regular program there are a few 

 letters on the table which we will call up. 



SECRETARY ROOT: A telegram from Tucson, Arizona, to the 

 President of the Congress: "The Tucson Chamber of Commerce extends 

 greetings and cordially invites the Congress to hold its next session at 

 Tucson." This is signed by H. V. Taylor, Secretary of the Tucson Cham- 

 ber of Commerce. 



I also have a report from the Credentials Committee: 



"Up to closing time last night 553 delegates had been registered at 

 the Registrar's Office, which is a very good showing. I am sorry to say, 

 however, th^t but 122 out of this list responded to the membership call, 

 eleven life members and one hundred and eleven yearly members, making 

 $221.00 collected. This is a nice start, but must not be the finish. We 

 earnestly urge that the soliciting committee "get busy" again this morning, 

 and also that those not solicited by the committee repair to the Regis- 

 trar's office and become members before leaving the building. If you 

 don't feel that you can afford a life membership, which is $10.00, join for 

 a year, which is $1.00, and certainly no farmer present is so "dry" that he 

 cannot afford to donate one dollar toward the maintenance of this Con- 

 gress." (Applause.) 



