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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



and take care of them properly. We will have enough educated among 

 us so as to give them proper education so they will not meet with fail- 

 ure. I notice the program has two other numbers from Utah, so with 

 these few items in regard to conditions in Utah, I will close." 



WYOMING. 



Hon. J. L. Baird, of Newcastle, who was to represent the state of 

 Wyoming, being unable to be present, Mr. T. R. Wilson, of Uinta county, 

 addressed the convention as follows: 



"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen — I am very sorry that my fel- 

 low citizen, Mr. Baird, is unable to be here. He has been called to 

 Washington unexpectedly, and as the time is now very far spent and as 

 you doubtless are tired, I shall try to make my remarks very short. I 

 will not attempt to deliver any desertation on the art of dry farming 

 science at all, but I will confine myself simply to sentiment. In my 

 younger years the only way men were able to produce plant growth was 

 under the process of irrigation or by liberal rainfall. It was a very long 

 time before we believed that plants could be grown with but little water, 

 by soil treatment. Now as time has passed in the settlement of this 

 great Union, we find that all the land susceptible to cultivation by na- 

 tural rainfall has been absorbed by private ownership, and also that the 

 land readily brought under irrigation has passed into private ownership. 



Dry Land Area. 



However, we now find a great deal of land, millions upon millions of 

 acres that we are coming to know is susceptible of cultivation under 

 scientific methods that have not been thought possible up to a few years 

 ago. There has been a great divide existing between the two systems, 

 and now it is for us, the irrigators on the one hand, the humid farmer 

 on the other, to band together to cross this divide. The results of the 

 deliberation of this great Congress, this representative Congress, are 

 looked forward to with great anticipation. I wish to announce to those 

 who may not know, that there have been gathered together from our 



Dry Farm Exhibits. 



experiment stations in Weston county, from our experiment stations in 

 Laramie county, an exhibit that you are invited to go and view. If 

 seeing is believing, you will all be convinced and made converts to the 

 science of dry farming. Our past legislature has made an effort to con- 

 trol the liquor traffic; they have passed a law prohibiting the sale 

 of liquor outside of incorporated towns and cities, and as we expect 

 dry farming is to be conducted outside of towns and cities, it will be dry 

 farming in more than one sense." 



ORGANIZATION. 



Mr. McColl (presiding) — "Mr. Burns desires to make an announce- 

 ment." 



