THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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that state and also throughout the Union, and I want to say to you, if 

 you come down there we will treat you right and show you a beautiful 

 city, and we will show you practical di'y farming." 



IDAHO. 



In responding for Idaho, Mr. F. C. Bowman, of Idaho Falls, said: 

 "Inasmuch as Dean Elliott, a delegate from our state, is down on the 

 program for an address on what dry farming has done for Idaho, I will 

 make the present State report very brief. The meaning of the word 

 Idaho in the Indian language is 'The Gem of the Mountains,' and the 

 Indian who selected that name must have been not only a poet, but a 

 prophet. We undoubtedly have more natural resources than any other 

 state in this great West. We have minerals of all kinds and descrip- 

 tions. We have timber. We have grass land. We raise fruit on our 

 land; in fact, we raise everything but bananas, and I have a man with 

 me from Idaho who can make you believe we raise bananas, but I can- 

 not. 



Irrigation in Idaho. 



"We have the choicest area of land capable of irrigation in the coun- 

 try, and we have ample, in fact an over-abundance of water to irrigate 

 it, and therefore it took some little time for the dry farming movement 

 to get hold of us. We have so much land that we can irrigate, and so 

 much water to irrigate it with that we didn't think much about dr>'' 

 farming. But after the second Dry Farming CongTess, a year ago, our 

 people took hold of this movement. They saw what it had accomplished 

 in the past. 



Dry Land Area. 



"Our state applied to the government to get 75,000 acres of land 

 on which it is impossible to get water and 30,000 acres of this land is 

 now in course of cultivation. That which was cultivated last year show- 

 ed unquestioned success. 



Acreage Results. 



"Our crops range, in various sections of the state, from 20 to 50 

 bushels to the acre, that is on dry farm land. As I said before, Mr, 

 Elliott in his paper will furnish all these statistics of our state and it 

 will be a very fine address. For me to go on now and tell you what we 

 have done would simply be encroaching on the ground. We have a 

 state we are proud of. We have a state that any honest, energetic man 

 can come to and make money and have a home and good health, and be 

 happy." 



KANSAS. 



Mr, C. K, McClelland, of Hays, responded for Kansas as follows: 

 "I have the honor today to represent a state, one of those mentioned 

 here this morning as having given a black eye to dry farming. 



