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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Seventh Session, Thursday Morning. 



The Congress was called to order at nine thirty o'clock, by Hon. 

 Bryant B. Brooks, presiding. 



SENATOR McCOLL: "I have a few words to say this morning, 

 and I hope I won't be deemed burdensome in saying them, or interfering 

 beyond what is right regarding the proceedings of this Congress. We 

 have all come a long way and we want to get all we can. Now, I am 

 afraid some of us are going home with not quite all we should get.. Now, 

 I recognize the splendid work that has been done by the Government sta- 

 tions and Government officials, and the gentlemen who have addressed 

 this Congress, but I am in time to state that there are too many official 

 papers and too little of discussion, there is too much speculation and 

 theory and too little practical results. I am going to make a sugges- 

 tion for these meetings. It is not in my hands, but I want to do what I 

 think is best not only for this Congress, but for future Congresses. There 

 are a number of farmers here and we would like to hear from them. The 

 experiment stations and officials are doing a magnificent work, but they 

 don't do it for themselves, they do it for the farmers, and what we want 

 to know what the farmers have done with the example the experi- 

 ment stations have set. I want to suggest, even if we do have to prolong 

 this Congress, that we shall have what our friends the Methodists call 

 an experience meeting, and we will have it thrown open for the farmers 

 to come and tell their experiences. Not only their successes, but their 

 failures, as we learn far more from our failures than from our successes. 

 Now, I want to make this suggestion to our friends, the government of- 

 ficials, and I do it with all respect, and not wishing to interfere in any 

 way that we should have before we part, one two, three or four hours 

 for free, open discussion where any man can come and tell his exper- 

 iences, tell something he has learned himself and we may go home all 

 Ihe wiser and all the better, and more familiar with the things that have 

 sent us here." 



SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. 



GOV^ERNOR BROOKS (Presiding): The suggestions made by the 

 senator from Australia are certainly very timely, and we will have a little 

 discussion after the papers this morning, depending somewhat upon 

 the time which we have at our disposal this afternoon. I am going to 

 call upon the father of the arid land movement of the dry farming work 

 to now address us upon "Scientific Agriculture; Its Effects on the West.'' 

 Professor H. M. Campbell. 



PROFESSOR CAMPBELL: 'While sitting here yesterday and lis- 

 tening to some of the remarks. I couldn't help but think of the number of 

 years ago when I came to the conclusion that better results might be ob- 

 tained out of a certain system of tillage if we could only understand 

 how to advance these ideas, but I was discredited by everybody. I don't 



