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PROF. CHILCOTT: The following resolution has been reported fa- 

 vorably: 



"Resolved, That we urge the United States Congress to pass legisla- 

 tion providing for 320 acre homesteads, as provided for by Senator Smoot's 

 bill in the house, or other legislation which will bring our public lands into 

 private ownership in a manner that will increase our number of homes 

 and area of cultivated farms." 



On motion of Prof. Chilcott, duly seconded and agreed to, the resolu- 

 tion was adopted. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: The following resolution has been reported fa- 

 vorably: 



"Whereas, In certain localities in the western states there yet remains 

 unsurveyed large areas of lands which are arid and semi-arid, and which 

 are desirable for homestead purposes, we therefore recommend that such 

 lands be promptly surveyed in order that settlement may be effected 

 thereon and uncertainty of obtaining title be thus removed from the minds 

 of those desiring occupancy of said land." 



On motion of Prof. Chilcott, duly seconded and agreed to, the resolu- 

 tion was adopted. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: The following resolution has been reported fa- 

 vorably: 



"Whereas, Such is the importance of home building upon the arid 

 farms to more fully insure the permanency and highest development of this 

 form of agriculture, and 



"Realizing that water for domestic purposes and a limited supply for 

 the irrigation of a small orchard and garden is a prime essential to success- 

 ful home building, therefore, 



"Be it Resolved, by this the Second Session of the Trans-Missouri 

 Dry Farming Congress in open session, that we indorse the work of the 

 Irrigation Investigations of the Office of Experiment Stations of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture in collecting and making public 

 practical information for the utilization of a limited water supply by means 

 of winter irrigation, small storage reservoirs, wind mills and pumping 

 plants." 



On motion of Prof. Chilcott, duly seconded and agreed to, the resolu- 

 tion was adopted. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: The following resolution has been favorably re- 

 ported by your committee": 



"Whereas, The preservation of the National forests is a matter of vast 

 and vital importance to the people of the west, and 



"Whereas, The Forestry Service of the Department of Agriculture has 

 adopted vigorous and definite methods in protecting from destruction the 

 forests of the west, both through dishonest methods and through the avari- 

 cious methods of the commercially inclined, be it hereby 



"Resolved, That the Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress express 

 its endorsement of the efforts of the Forestry Service to conserve 1jie wa- 

 ters of the western states through forest preservation." 



