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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Work of The Congress. 



"It is largely for the benfit of these uncounted thousands, no less 

 than for those now occupjnng homes on the land, that the Trans- 

 Missouri Dry Farming Congress is now striving. The labors of The 

 Congress have already resulted in immense benefits to the people of 

 the west and the accruing benefits will be of instimable value in the 

 future. Not only our own countr5% but many foreign nations will benefit 

 from our labors, for there are other countries where the same conditions 

 exist, and the same problems remain to be solved. I hope to see in 

 the not distant future an expansion of our present scope to embrace 

 a World's Arrd Farming Congress where the nations of the world will be 

 represented." 



RESPONSE FROM BRAZIL. 



By Dr. Lawrence Baeta-Neves, Delegate From Brazil. 



"Your Excellency, the Governor of Wyoming, and President of the 

 Congress: 



"Mr. Chairman, Honorable Members of the Third Trans-Missouri 

 Dry Farming Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



"Honored by a special invitation sent to me through the kindness 

 of Mr. John T. Burns, secretary of The Congress, to take part in these ses- 

 sions, that we are now attending with so great interest, I im'mediately 

 decided to accept the invitation. I could not have any idea of declining 

 the courtesy extended to me by that gentleman, and I desired to learn 

 from your experience what interests me and constitutes one of the 

 subjects of my scientific investigation in this admirable country. 



"The great deal of which I learned in the last Irrigation Congress 

 in Albuquerque, that 1 attended in the capacity of delegate of the 

 Brazilian government, influenced me not to wish to lose this important 

 meeting of the Dry Farming Congress, so full of interest and utility 

 for the peoples who wish for the prosperity of their countries. 



"In the Irrigation Congress I had practically an additional proof 

 of the advantages coming from the co-operation of different ideas for 

 the solution of one certain problem. Giving consideration to the ex- 

 periences of many men in different ways, under different conditions of 

 time and place is undoubtedly the best and surest factor of success in 

 any work, principally when we consider somethrng like dry farming, that 

 demands above all, serious study and very much observation. 



International Movement. 



"Really, the dry farming problem is of this class and the great 

 interest that it awakens all over the world is only a consequence of 

 the combination of ideas and efforts of those pioneers of the work in 

 the conquest of the land from the desert. And you North Americans, 

 better than anyone else, know very well how to profit by this truth, 

 and you, without having any egotistical feelings, without any inten- 



