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Newton and Edison famous forever. Maybe someone else would have 

 given us the telephone in due time, but why should we not have the 

 advantage of dry farming experiments now rather than to wait for the 

 next generation. Perhaps by that time we will not need it, we are 

 making such gigantic strides in irrigation engineering. While you are 

 experimenting do not forget to use good conmaon sense. Read about 

 the experiments of others. Think them over. Profit by their successes 

 and failures. It is no disgrace to make a mistake once, but only a fool 

 will make the same mistake twice. Do not grow discouraged. There 

 is some path that leads out of the woods, or at least some line of least 

 resistance where the brush will allow a path to be blazed. Above all, do 

 not get into a rut. 



► "I do not pretend to know much about farming, but I am going to 



learn. I had better stop now for fear I may affect you as did a preacher 

 of whom I heard. He was a dry, long-winded talker. He talked an 

 hour on the major prophets and his audience hoped that he was through, 

 but instead he took up the minor prophets. Many of his audience in the 

 meantime dozed off. He shouted out, 'Now, that we are through with 

 the major prophets and the minor prophets, where shall we place Jere- 

 miah?' A man on the front seat awakened with a start and sleepily 

 replied: 'Jeremiah can have my place; I am going home.'" 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. 



PROF. CHILCOTT: "The Committee on Resolutions begs to report 

 as follows: 



DRY FARMING CONGRESS— NEW TITLE. 



"Whereas, The Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congrefos in its two 

 years of existence has assumed proportions beyond the original plans 

 of the organizers of this Congress; and, 



"Whereas, Many foreign nations are now represented in the active 

 membership of the Congress, receiving bulletins and sending representa- 

 tives to this, the Third Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress: 



"Be it Hereby Resolved, That the name of this Congress be changed 

 from the Trans-Missouri Dry Farming CongTess to The Dry Farming 

 Congress.' 



"Be it Further Resolved, That 'The Dry Farming Congress' maintain, 

 as soon as practicable, a permianent headquarters and offices in some 

 well located city of the middle West, and that as soon as practical and 

 possible so to do, the organization be so financed and so re-organized 

 and maintained in the various arid countries of the world, with a system 

 ut correspondence and publications in the necessary number of languages 

 in order that all the world together may study the problems now before 

 lliis Congress." 



