DRY-FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 59 



tion with the sessions of the Kansas Livestock Association now in session 

 in this city. 



The plan is to assemble here promptly at 1:30, when Smith Riley, of 

 the United States Forest Reserve, Denver, will deliver an interesting ad- 

 dress and then at 2:15 arrangements have been made for special street 

 car service from this building to the Union Stockyards. 



The rest of the program will be carried out at that place. 



I think the Secretary, Mr. Faxon, has some announcements to make. 



SECRETARY FAXON: 



I wish to announce, at the request of Chairman McOmie of the Mem- 

 bership Committee, a meeting of that committee at luncheon at the Wichtica 

 Club at noon today. 



Also announcement of remaining names of members of the Committees 

 on Resolutions and Nominations should be handed in to the Secretary's desk 

 without delay. 



I offer, Mr. President, a number of communications of interest to the 

 Congress, including those from Minister Motherwell of the Province of 

 Saskatchewan, Canada; a telegram from the Texas Cattleraisers Associa- 

 tion^ peculiar interest to this particular session; and letters from Champ 

 Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States; 

 F. W. Mondell of Wyoming, and Dr. John A. Widtsoe of Utah. 



Note: These communications were read, and are printed later in the 

 proceedings of this day. 



PRESIDENT WATERS: 



I now present to you Dean Burnett of the Nebraska College of Agri- 

 culture, the presiding officer for this morning. 



DEAN BURNETT: 



It is a pleasure to me to watch the growth of the Dry-Farming Con- 

 gress and to watch the growth of the settlement of western portions of 

 our state in which dry-farming is practiced to a greater or less degree; 

 and I assure you iti is a pleasure to me to have the privilege of being 

 here this morning. 



I believe that with the growth and settlement of the great upland 

 country where rainfall is less abundant than it is in the Mississippi and 

 Missouri valleys, a change of methods is frequently necessary in order to 

 grow a crop. I believe that through this country it will be necessary for 

 us to bear in mind the methods for conducting the livestock industry at the 

 same time that we endeavor, so far as we may, to extend crop production 

 in the dry region by dry-land efforts. Because, if we study the settlement 

 and the growth of any farm country, you will find that you cannot divorce 

 the livestock industry from prosperity in the development of crop produc- 

 tion. I have in mind that just now, the development of the dry-land 

 region or irrigated region where settlement has progressed rapidly and 

 crop production has profited so well, there is no market for the crop. The 



