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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



"All of this would only be fair to claim as coming from the Farmer's 

 Banquet, if not directly — indirectly. The quality of the flour they are 

 making we have no better evidence to offer you than the bread on exhi- 

 bition over in Exhibition Hall. 



"Master of human destinies am I! 



Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, 



Oiti'es and fields I walk; I penetrate 



Deserts and seas remote, and passing by 



Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late, 



I knock unbidden once at every gate! 



If sleeping, wake! If feasting, rise before 



I turn away! It is the hour of fate. 



And those who follow me reach every state 



Mortals desire, and conquer every foe 



Save death! But those who doubt or hesitate, 



Condemned to failure, penury and woe, 



Seek me in vain and uselessly implore; 



I answer not, and I return no more." 



SEED BREEDING AND ITS RELATION TO DRY FARMING. 



(By B. C. Buffum, Agronomist, Worland, Wyoming.) 



GOV. BROOKS, presid"ng: "It is very important that seed breeding 

 in connection with other work should be considered in connection with 

 dry farming and we will now have the pleasure of listening to Prof. B. C. 

 Buffum, who had a wonderful experience along this line and is a citi- 

 zen of Wyoming, whom we claim to be the Burbank of this state." 



MR. BUFFUM: "Ladies and Gentlemen: I am afraid that is rub- 

 bing it in a little bit, when they call me a Burbank and I am reminded of 

 a little couplet which I heard some years ago, which runs like this: 



"There was a great Congregational preacher, 



Who said to the hen, you're a creature, 



And in consequence of that. 



She laid an egg in his hat. 



And so did the hen reward the preacher." 



"I will not detain you very long for my paper is not over six or 

 seven minutes long. 



Soil Treatment. 



"The factors on which the development of dry farming depends are 

 some moisture, suitable soil, a successful system, and adapted or adap- 

 table crops. We must have moisture and conserve it; we must have 

 soil and till it; we must have plants and grow them, and it is worse 

 than useless to raise unprofitable crops. Any one of these factors is as 

 indispensible as any other, but perhaps the greatest opportunity for the 



