THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



great desert. On much of that great 'desert' are thousands of the 

 happiest homes in America, and land just as good waiting for the un- 

 born thousands to come and claim it." 



UTAH. 



Mr. J. W. Paxman, of Nephi, Utah, addressed the convention as fol- 

 lows: 



"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Convention — This session has already 

 been prolonged, and I shall not detain you but a very few moments. I 

 desire to say thrs on the part of Utah, that she is not making any great 

 noise, but she is doing the thing proper. Most of you here remember 

 the excellent convention that was held in Salt Lake City a year ago. 



Value of the Congress. 



The effects upon the people of Utah have remained and a new life and 

 new activity have been found as the result of this Congress. And we 

 would like to say to the people of this state that if as much good ac- 

 crues to you as accrued to the people of Utah from the last convention, 

 certainly some very great benefit will result. 



Utah Has Different Conditions. 



"In listening to the reports that are given to the representatives of 

 the various states, I am lead to conclude that your conditions in the 

 majority of cases are widely different to those that exist in Utah. It 

 appears that of your annual precipitation, three-fourths of it comes dur- 

 ing the growing months, while in Utah three-fourths comes in the winter 

 months, and we have to study different methods in our state and in the 

 inter-mountain country than what you do on the eastern slope. Per- 

 haps our soil is of an entirely different character so it requires a dif- 

 ferent treatment from this standpoint. We find it a not very difficult 

 thing to conserve the principal part of the moisture that falls upon our 



Work of Agricultural Colleges. 



arid lands. If we will follow the methods given us T)y those who have 

 had this matter in charge on the part of the agricultral college and 

 other men who have been magnanimous enough to preach this good gos- 

 pel among the people, we will feel pretty well fortified and qualified to 

 plod along diligently with the soil and bring forth that which nature 

 has in store. Because of this, Utah today feels secure in the matter 

 of dry farming. She has for years past felt secure in irrigation, and I 



Irrigation in Utah. 



presume she is the leading state in the Union to adopt the methods of 

 irrigation, and today, I have no doubt, stands at the head of any state 

 in the Union in this matter. I believe the same can be said in regard 



Utah Was the Pioneer. 



to the dry farming movement. We have been dry farming, if it may be 

 called dry farming, for upwards of thirty years, and we have in the 



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