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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



sessions are in many respects similar to your Great Basin region and 

 the arid portions of California and Arizona. 



Russia Watching America. 



"We are confronted by the same problems which you are trying to 

 attack and are watching your progress with great interest. I know 

 there are at the very moment, men in the various portions of our coun- 

 try impatiently waiting for reports of these meetings and who are more 

 anxious 'to learn and to wait,' than many a man in your own midst. 



"But we would not like to be in a position of one who only TAKES, 

 v/e are anxious and willing to GIVE, be it only a single drop contributed 

 to the sea of science and human welfare. Nature has been lavish with 

 us. In a crude, unsystematic, but perhaps surer way, than by artificial 

 means, she has herself selected for us a good many kinds of plants 

 adapted to semi-arid conditions. We are immensely glad to see you 

 drawing upon this stock. I can hardly tell you what pleasure it gives 

 me to see in your fields our native 'Kubankas,' 'Gharnovkas,' etc., etc. 

 They sing a song of brotherhood of men. 



"We also have a good many experimenters, whose investigations, I 

 am sure, would prove of interest to you. I may have an opportuunity to 

 relate to you at some other time the resuls of this work. The principles 

 and methods of Dry Farming are not new to us. We have had among 

 us a good number of inquisitive minds that have developed the same ideas 

 and have reached the same conclusions as your apostles of New Agricul- 

 ture. What we lack mostly it that charmingly attractive vim, push, that 

 WILL TO LIVE, TO ACT, AND TO ACCOMPLISH, which so distinctly 

 marks the American, especially the American from the 'Wild West.' 

 among other people in this rather sluggish world of ours. We find in- 

 spiration in your activity and I, therefore, ask you to accept the hear- 

 tiest congratulations and best wishes from your friends from behind the 

 seas." 



Adjourned to 9:30, Wednesday morning. 



