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DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



' "Be It Resolved, That Article II of the Constitution be modified to 

 read as follows: The officers of the Congress shall consist of a President, 

 three Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer and an Executive Com- 

 mittee of one member from each Trans-Missouri state or territory and 

 the District of Columbia. The President and the three Vice-Presidents 

 of the Congress shall be named by the convention in session. The Sec- 

 retary and the Treasurer shall be elected by the Executive Committee, 

 shall be required to give guarantee company bonds in the amount determ- 

 ined by the committee, and the accounts shall be annually audited. The 

 Executive Committee shall be selected by the delegation of their re- 

 spective states and territories. The President and Secretary shall be ex- 

 officio members of the Executive Committee." 



I move the adoption of the report by the Congress. 



The motion was duly seconded, and being put to a vote was agreed to. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: Another short resolution. "Resolved, That it 

 is th€ sense of this Congress that a vote of thanks be extended to the 

 Utah Agricultural College for the excellent exhibit and decoration dis- 

 played in this assembly hall." 



I move the adoption of the resolution. 



The motion was duly seconded and agreed to. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: I thank you, Mr. Farrell, for the courtesy in 

 allowing me to make the report. 



MR. FARRELL: After harrowing it lengthwise leave your harrow in 

 the corner where you finish and in the next following week harrow that 

 lengthwise again, and continue to do so, first lengthwise and then cross- 

 wise until your potatoes are large enough to have a team commence 

 breaking, then you can put your harrow away and bring out 3^our culti- 

 vator, and cultivate the rows good and deep, five or six inches deep, in 

 the middle of them. Then after a while, when the potatoes get about 

 eight inches high, take your cultivator, take that cloth off and run that 

 cultivator the whole length of your field and hill them up " 



A DELEGATE: You mean the shovel plow? 



MR. FARRELL: The shovel plow, I should say, and run up each 

 row one way and down the other until you have finished it all, then if 

 3^ou have water don't water them but once, just as they are coming into 

 bloom, and that will cover the ground, and they won't need any more 

 moisture, and if 3^ou will do this and your ground is in good trim, in- 

 stead of raising 200 bushels you will raise from 700 to 1,000 bushels per 

 acre. (Applause.) 



Now, there was one old Danishman in that meeting, and he moved 

 down there tlie next year, and he bought a cit}^ lot, and it was in pretty 

 good cultivation, and he planted a quarter of an acre much in the way I 

 told him, and attended to it in that \v3.y. He onl}' had one horse, he plowed 

 it with one horse, and attended to it just in this wise, and James Camp- 

 bell, who keeps a store there, will tell you that he has sold from that quar- 

 ter of an acre of the best potatoes he has got, 217 bushels of potatoes 

 from that quarter acre, planted and attended to in this wise. This old 



