THE DRY FARMING CO.NGRESS. 



and there is nothing that gives me so much enjoyment as to be in the 

 field with my coat off, breathing God's pure air first handed, and assist- 

 ing nature to produce vegetation. I was showing the blister scars on my 

 hands to Prof. Campbell and another gentleman and they inquired of me 

 if my boys had blisters on their hands. I said, no, my boys and hired 

 hands wear gloves and work scientifically, where it is hard work fer the 

 old man to get out of the ruts of doing hard labor. 



Dry Farming Congress. 



"Now one thing more, brother delegates, we must learn to pray — and 

 it must not be, 'Now I lay rae down to sleep,' but 'Good Lord, give us 

 one million people who will put up $10 each to become life members of 

 this Congress.' 



"I am thankful that I have lived to see the day when our best people 

 from the president of the United States down to the school boy are 

 getting interested in agriculture, and making a study of scientific soil 

 culture; and the city boy and man getting a yearning for a little land 

 and live stock of his own. The boy on the farm is getting to realize that 

 he has an occupati'on to be proud of, and that he is connected with the 

 greatest industry in the world, and has more reasons to be prOud than 

 the city people, who are depending on him for bread and meat and other 

 luxuries from the farm, and I hope that larger appropriations will be 

 made by congress for more experimental farms for the semi-arid dis- 

 tricts, that the scientific soil culture may be seen, practiced, and ap- 

 preciated by more people. 



"And now I wish to tender my sincere thanks to this audience for 

 having so patiently li'stened to a common farmer, and his rude way of 

 expressing himself regarding a few facts concerning the welfare of the 

 farmer and the country at large, while there are so many eloquent 

 speakers from abroad for you to listen to. I thank you." 



MR. BOWMAN (presiding) : "If you want practical results, I have 

 got the real thing here. I am going to introduce to you a young lady 

 who has taken up a homestead in Colorado and made a success of it, 

 Marguerite Frink of Colorado." 



''DRY FARMING" A HOMESTEAD." 



By Marguerite R. Frink, of Colorado Agricultural College. 



"Doubtless you are surprised to have a girl address you on dry 

 farming, but I assure you that the surprise is mutual as I did not know 

 of this honor until Wednesday morning. 



"I could talk a day on dry farming, but I don't want you to be like 

 the man of whom I heard recently. This man had a nagging wife — a rare 

 case. He came home late one evening — a rare quality of the species 

 known as husbands. His wife thought it her duty to tell him a few 

 things. She talked and talked. They retired. She talked on, he wakened 



