Stenographic Report of the Proceedings of the 

 Third Annual Session of 



The Dry Farming Congress 



(Formerly the Trans- Missouri Dry Farming Congress) 



Held at Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 23-25, 1909. 



The Congress was called to order in the Capital Avenue Theatre at 

 11:30 o'clock a. m., on Tuesday, February 23rd, 1909, by F. C. Bowman, 

 Idaho Falls, Idaho, Chairman of the Executive Committee. 



Mr. Bowman presiding: "Gentlemen of The Trans-Missouri Dry 

 Farming Congress, it affords me a great deal of pleasure to call you to 

 order this morning for the third session of this Congress. The Trans- 

 Missouri Dry Farming Congi'ess is now the leading economic movement 

 of the world and I wish to impress upon you the necessity of being care- 

 ful and conservative in your deliberations, for the reason that the 

 entire world, not the United States, but the entire world, is watching 

 the movements of The Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress. It stands 

 pre-eminent in all the movements of today." 



After an invocation by the Rev. George C. Rafter, D. D., of Cheyenne, 

 the Congress proceeded to its regular order of business as follows: 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



By Hon. Bryant B. Brooks, Governor *of Wyoming and President of 

 the Congress: 



"Ladies and Gentlemen — On this auspicious opening of the Third 

 Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress, I have the double pleasure of 

 not only welcoming one and all to this Equality State and to this most 

 American part of America, but also of congratulating you upon the truly 

 remarkable success and growth of Scientific Agriculture. Seemingly na- 

 ture and time have conspired to make this movement one of the most 

 successful achievements in the whole record of the civilizing progress of 

 mankind. 



"Olnv deep appreciation of your presence here will find its truest ex- 

 pression not in words, but in the carrying out of the excellent program 

 prepared for your entertainment and instruction. The good people of 

 this city have spared neither tim_e nor expense in their efforts to make 

 this Convention a success. 



