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come we trust that when you go away the memories you will carry 

 away with you may be as delightful as your anticipations and good wishes 

 for the success of that Congress are at this time. (Applause.) 

 Chairman McCabe here resumed the chair. 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: If there is nothing else before the Congress 



we will proceed with the regular program. I believe, however, there is 



one resolution, which the Secretary will read. 



The Secretary then read the resolution, as follows: 



"Whereas, It has been demonstrated that our so-called arid country 



is susceptible of a high state of cultivation, under proper well-known 



methods, and 



"Whereas, It is granted that irrigation is salutary and an efficient re- 

 inforcement to dry farming, 



''Therefore, Be It Resolved, That the second session of the Trans- 

 Missouri Dry Farming Congress hereby goes on record as highly endorsing 

 and commending the work which has been done by the National Irriga- 

 tion Congress and pledges its support in the continuation of its laudable 

 efforts." 



On motion the resolution was adopted. 



MR. LIVINGSTON, of Utah: Is there any other report from the 

 Committee on Resolutions except what has already been read by the Sec- 

 retary and passed upon by the Congress? 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: There is none on the table, no, sir. 



MR. GLEASON, of Utah: I move the continuation of the program. 



MR. M'CABE: We are going to continue without a motion. Just 

 withdraw your motion and we will go ahead. 



MR. FARRELL: In continuing my address, I wish to say that three 

 or four persons met me this afternoon as I was coming to the meeting and 

 stated that they thought perhaps there was plenty of water close to the 

 surface of the ground causing the grain and alfalfa to do so well. I will 

 relate a circumstance that happened some four years ago. Several gen- 

 tlemen came up. They wanted to visit my farm and see the grain, hay, 

 etc., growing, and they thought that there must be a big seepage from the 

 mountain west of me. I said, "xA.ll right, our next trip will be over here 

 on top of the mountain, as I have fort}^ acres of grain growing there." So 

 we went past the house and ordered dinner as we went h}\ and went up 

 on top of the mountain. I said, "Now, you are on top, 3^ou can see 

 both ways, and the grain reached over both ways. I would like one of 

 you to walk out into that grain thirty feet." He walked out into the 

 grain and it took him about to his breast. "I declare," he says, "this is 

 just as good, and the heads are just as heavy and as plump as the other 

 down on the bottom." I says, "There is no seepage here, only what comes 

 from above, consequently it is the work that we put on the ground that 

 brings the good results." He said, "What is that work?" "We plow our 

 land deep, cultivate it well and keep the weeds down, keep the water, and 

 snow, the melting snow, keep the moisture in the ground by our surface 

 cultivation. We cultivate it continuously, and sow it early so that we will 



