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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



A motion to adopt the resolution was duly seconded. 



MR. HARRINGTON, of Utah: I would like to have that resolution 

 read again before that question is put. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: This was carefully gone over in the committee 

 room and you will notice that it is simply an endorsement of the preser- 

 vation of the forest. 



Prof. Chilcott then re-read the resolution. 



MR. HARRINGTON, of Utah: I think, so far as that resolution is 

 concerned, as it is outlined, that it is the general purport that it is the 

 sense of this convention that we approve and ratify the preservation of the 

 forests. I am interested in this question down in the southern part of 

 San Pete County. We find there has been a lot too much of restrictive, 

 methods applied to the small cattle owners in getting permits to graze 

 the high lands adjacent to their land. The declaring of the approval of 

 the preservation of forests is certainly a part of this convention's work, but 

 if there is too much restriction; if the arid farmer or semi-arid farmer 

 has to go to so many different men to get permits to put his sheep on 

 the high lands it makes too much restriction, whereas if there were a 

 slight modification in that resolution, saying that we want that area no 

 larger than necessary, and we also want the very lowest number of su- 

 pervisors necessary to carry out the purposes of the Forestry Service, 

 we would not have that objection to the resolution. They have got too 

 many supervisors and too many restrictive rules. We find our cattle own- 

 ers have to go to too many people. There are lands that lay for eight 

 or nine months in the year and they are not used for anything. We want 

 to have a right to go on there — especially on the alkali lands — to graze. 

 While the forest reserve is a good idea we don't want that to extend too 

 far nor to take lands that are too large. They are taking in in some 

 places a sort of alkali land that won't grow any forest. We don't want 

 them to take in too wide a scope. I haven't had time to frame an amend- 

 ment, but it seems if the Committee on Resolutions have not one they 

 ought to present a resolution that we don't want the forest area extended 

 any wider than absolutely necessary, and we want just as few supervisors 

 as we can get. For that reason, unless there is something else (in- 

 terrupted.) 



MR. WM. MORFITT, Ontario, Oregon: Gentlemen, as the introducer 

 of this resolution it devolves upon me to make a few remarks in regard 

 to it. I my.self am in the cattle business, but as a delegate to this Dry 

 Farming Congress I am a dry farmer. (Applause.) Now then, the intro- 

 duction of this resolution was to endorse the Forestry Service in regard 

 to their actions with regard to the management of the ranges in connec- 

 tion with the stock, but we, as dry farmers, must know and must admit 

 that the preservation of our forests is of infinite importance to the pre- 

 cipitation that falls upon our farm. Consequently in introducing this reso- 

 lution I was careful to eliminate any part that might in any way endorse 

 the action of the Forest Bureau in connection with the cattle or sheep in- 

 dustry.' I know the feeling in Idaho and Utah and Oregon. I am an 



