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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



"We are pleased to advise that this proposition from the Executive 

 Committee to the people of Wyoming was accepted and the splendid 

 success of the present Congress is due to the intelligent and unselfish 

 work of the Board of Control ably assisted by our Assistant Secretary, 

 Mr. John T. Burns. 



"In conclusion your committee desires to congratulate itself and the 

 Dry Farming movement on the exceedingly successful selection for its 

 Assistant Secretary, Mr, John T. Burns. 



"Respectfully submitted, 



"F. C. BOWMAN, Chairman." 



Report Adopted. 



Mr. McColl (presiding) : "You have heard the report. Does any 

 one desire to make any suggestions or remarks concerning it? If not, 

 will some one make a motion that the report be received, in order that it 

 may be opened for publication." 



It was regularly moved and seconded that the report be received and 

 adopted. 



Mr. McColl (presiding) : "We will now go on with the business 

 of this afternoon. I would like to call the attention of the delegates 

 that our time is limited. We are late in starting this afternoon and I 

 will ask you, therefore, to be as brief as possible in your remarks con- 

 sistent with the importance of the message. 



Roll Call of States. 



COLORADO. 



Mr. C. C. Williams, Yuma, Colo., responding for the state, said: 

 "I feel that it is somewhat of a responsibility placed upon me this 

 afternoon in addressing the Dry Farming Congress in behalf of Colo- 

 rado, a state which only a few years ago was regarded as the heart of 

 the Great American Desert, and which today is still regarded as the 

 heart, not of the desert, but of the Dry Farming movement; a state 



Dry Farming Acreage. 



which has more than 23,000,000 acres of land lying above ditch and east 

 of the Rockies, and of that 23,000,000 acres I think I am conservative in 

 saying that not less than 10,000,000 is susceptible to cultivation under 

 the dry farming movement. Of that 10,000,000 acres less than 2.000,000 

 acres are today under cultivation. 



"Colorado has been regarded as the heart of the dry farming mbve- 

 ment, and has received more advertising along that line than any other 

 two states that come within the scope of the movement. That advertising 

 has done much good; it has also done harm, considerable harm. 



