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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



"Aside from the many instructive and eloquent addresses, which will 

 be delivered here, there has been collected in another part of the city 

 one of the most attractive and complete exhibits of dry farming pro- 

 ducts ever displayed, indicating that our people thoroughly appreciate 

 the tremendous possibilities, which will follow the successful reclamation 

 of the arid and semi-arid regions of the world. 



"Two years ago, when the first Dry Farming Congress assembled 

 in Denver, I invited the Convention to come up here and see what 

 Wyoming could offer in the way of dry farming and a good time. I 

 told them it would be of mutual advantage to get better acquainted 

 and that we would welcome them in true Western style. I believe 

 under the inspiration of my own generous enthusiasm, I told them to 

 just br.'ng along everybody in Denver. One year ago this state sent a 

 large and enthusiastic delegation to Salt Lake City, where a similar 

 invitation was extended. It is gratifying today to note that both invi- 

 tations have been accepted. Moreover, Idaho, Montana, Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, New Mexico and many other states, hearing that Colorado and 

 Utah were coming to old Cheyenne for a good time, evidently concluded 

 to fall in line and make it unanimous. It is fortunate for all of us that 

 many dist nguished representatives from other lands are here to wit- 

 ness just what will happen when a bunch like this gets together. 



Originated in Denver. 



"Denver originated this Dry Farming Congress, and the first official 

 call was issued by that brilliant and stalwart son of Colorado, Governor 

 Jesse F. McDonald. Denver has started many good things, including 

 the - Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, the American Mining Con- 

 gress, the National Live Stock Association, and the National Irrigation 

 Congress, but of them all, The Dry Farmng Congress is one of the 

 best and most important. 



Spread of tlie Movement. 



"We call it The Trans-Missouri Congress, and think of it mainly in 

 connection with our own semi-arid states of America, but so important 

 and stupendous is its work, that in two brief years its theories, ex- 

 periments and teachings have spread to every nation and to every land. 

 Its proceedings have been translated into many languages and its les- 

 sons studied by millions of firesides. To the inhabitants of certain sec- 

 tions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, as well as in both North and 

 South America, the possibilities of settlement and improvement under 

 better methods of scientific agr' culture as outlined by this Congress have 

 been accepted with enthusiasm and at this Convention, we have not 

 only earnest delegates from our own great sisterhood of states, but also 

 representatives from many foreign countries. 



"All are welcome, thrice welcome, and we rejoice that all can 

 unite in this great and glorious work of- reclaiming the waste places of 

 the earth. 



