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to be dry farmers. We hope that you will attend the next convention 

 and then that you accept our invitation to come to Rapid City in 1911." 



UTAH. 



Dr. John A. Widtsoe, president of the Utah Agricultural College, 

 who was to have delivered an address had been called away upon im- 

 portant business matters and J. W. Paxman, a prominent ranchman of 

 Nephi, Utah, was called upon by Cha'rman McColl to respond for his 

 Ltate. Mr. Paxman spoke as follows: 



"Dr. Widtsoe until this morning was here for the purpose of giving 

 an address to this convention, but I very much regret to say that at a 

 late hour last night he received word that the affairs in his office at 

 home demanded his return. We regret this because it will cut Utah, out 

 of a very fine speech by his not being here and not only that, but 

 his talk would be a good one for the convention. Dr. Widtsoe is 

 looked upon in Utah as the very brighest man in the state on the subject 

 of dry farming, in fact we look to him as the father of scientific farming 

 in Utah and he has done more good for that country in the way of re- 

 claiming the desert than any one man in that region, and we very much 

 regret that he is unable to be present at this time, and we would like to 

 have Dr. Widtsoe submit a paper to go into the proceedings of this Con- 

 gress so that his thoughts shall be your property, and the Utah dele- 

 gation requests of you that you permit the paper to be submitted by Dr. 

 Widtsoe to go into the record." 



Rule Widtsoe. 



MR. McCOLIj (presiding) : "We all join in the regrets that Dr. 

 Widtsoe could not remain and I take it to be the sense of the meeting 

 that Dr. Widtsoe's paper will go into the record." 



Change in Committee. 



MR. BOWMAN, of Idaho: "I would like to state here that A. J. 

 McCane, of South Dakota, has been substituted for S. H. Lea, on the 

 Resolutions Committee." 



Telegram of Regrets. 



The Secretary read the following telegram: 



"Sterling, Colorado, February 24, 1909. 

 "Mr. John T. Burns, Sec'y, Dry Farming Congress, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



"The universal and excessive supply of moisture in the form of snow 

 in the wide area covering the states of Nebraska and Colorado makes it 

 impossible for me to reach Cheyenne in time for the Dry Farming Con- 

 gress. I regret very much that it will not be possible for me to attend. 



"G. W. HOLDREDGte." 



