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DRY-FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 



On behalf of the state of Colorado, which you have so honored, and 

 of the Denver Chamber of Commerce, which made that honor possible, I 

 come to you with thanks and the assurance of a bigger interest and a 

 heartier cooperation than we have ever felt in this work. As a sister, 

 Colorado sends you greetings. 



I thank you. 



SECRETARY FAXON: 



One other important competition was in behalf of the best bushel of 

 wheat, which was open to the world. It was participated in by individ- 

 uals, counties, states, and provinces and there is a mighty lot of it and a 

 mighty fine lot of it; but for the best bushel of wheat, for which there 

 was given the International Harvester Company's 6-horsepower portable 

 oil engine, there competed a citizen of the province of Saskatchewan, Can- 

 ada, and I am going to ask Deputy Minister Mantle to respond for that 

 successful competitor. 



MR. MANTLE: 



Mr. Secretary: 1 am very pleased indeed on behalf of Mr. Seager 

 Wheeler, who grew and exhibited the successful entry, and on behalf of 

 our province, to acknowledge the honor Mr. Wheeler has brought on our 

 country. 



It may possibly interest you, and for the benefit of those who are 

 here and who are themselves farmers working on their farms, I just wanted 

 to mention the fact that Mr. Wheeler is a little Englishman in our country 

 who came out 10 or 15 years ago and took up a homestead in the Rosthern 

 district and has run a small farm there ever since. He is not a wealthy 

 man — he is simply a man with an infinite capacity for taking pains. This 

 is not his first winning. It is absolutely a question of hard work and the 

 selection of grain. Last year, or 1913, Mr. Wheeler's crop was hailed out. 

 Fortunately, not all his seed selection was ruined and in any case, being 

 one who took pains, he had kept in reserve some of the seed. But Mr. 

 Wheeler works under difficulties just as well as the rest of us, and I can 

 assure you he will appreciate not only the engine itself, but he will be 

 even more appreciative of the honor which he has won for himself, for 

 our province and for our great Dominion. 



I thank you. 



SECRETARY FAXON: 



In this wheat competition, the second premium was won by S. D. 

 Carpenter, of Redrock, Oklahoma, and consisted of a 24-wheel subsurface 

 packer, given by the Parlin & Orendorff Company, of Canton, Illinois. 



CHAIRMAN ATKINSON: 



This ends the session for this morning. The session this afternoon 

 is under the general title of "Farmstead Irrigation," and will commence at 

 2 o'clock. 



You are dismissed. 



