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the people could see how the work should l)e done and from which an 

 instructor may be sent out to show how success may be obtained. These 

 should be temporary stations, as in a few years they would be transferred 

 to another place in need of such instruction. 



State Co-Operation. 



"If the state desires to increase its agricultural population, the great 

 problem that demands attention for the next few years is to show the 

 many people who are already here and the very many more that are cer- 

 tainly coming, how they may succeed under the new climatic conditions 

 that they here must meet with. A successful, prosperous and satisfied 

 settler is the best kind of an advertiser , whereas the failure due to im- 

 proper methods of farm practice will do more to keep the settler out 

 did to move them out than many thousand of dollars could do to bring 

 them in. 



"If my observations and inquiries rightly inform me, the farm settlers 

 are coming to the west just as fast, if not faster, than they can be helped 

 to a right understanding of the farm methods that are necessary to suc- 

 cess, so that if the states have any funds to devote to the settlement of 

 the country, it should go into helping those who are here, to succeed, rath- 

 er than in inducing others to come. The fact that the states are taking 

 hold of this problem will in itself be the greatest kind of an inducement 

 to settlers to come." 



One hundred and twenty descriptive stereopticon slides were then 

 used to show actual crop distributions. 



The Congress adjourned to Turner Hall, where a smoker was given 

 for delegates. 



