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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



urged to secure larger appropriations for the establishment and main- 

 tenance of experimental farms for the purpose of assisting the so-called 

 dry farmers of the West in working with the problems now confronting 

 them, and in finally establishing so-called dry farming, or un-rrrigated 

 farming, in the arid districts, as an exact science which may be under- 

 stood and followed by all agriculturists throughout the world." 

 Adopted by unanimous vote. 



NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. 



"WHEREAS, the territories of New Mexico and Arizona have been 

 for many years seeking admission as states of the Union, and 



"WHEREAS, They are justly entitled to such admission by reason 

 of population, natural resources, wealth and education, and 



"WHEREAS, A bill has been introduced at the present session of 

 Congress granting such admission, which bill has been already passed 

 by the Honorable House of Representatives, and is now before the Hon- 

 orable Senate, awaiting motion; now therefore, 



"Be it Resolved, by the Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress, as- 

 sembled in third annual session at Cheyenne, Wyoming, that it rs the 

 sense of this body, that the admission of these two territories has been 

 already too long delayed, and that great injustice is being done them 

 by keeping them under their present form of government, and 



"Be it Further Resolved, that this congress does hereby petition the 

 Senate of the United States to pass at its present session, the bill now 

 before it, granting these territories admission to the sisterhood of states, 

 and, 



"Be it Further Resolved, That the Secretary of this Congress be in- 

 structed to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President of the 

 United States, the President of the Senate, and the Chairman of the 

 Committee on Territories of the Senate." 



Adopted by unanimous vote. 



GOVERNMENT CO-OPERATION. 



"RESOLVED: That the Third Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress 

 requests that the Department of Agriculture of the United States, the 

 Agricultural Colleges and all Directors and Superintendents of Experi- 

 mental Stations in the arid districts of the West, oo-operate with the 

 Executive Officers of this Congress in the assembling of data, maps and 

 statistical information by which the exact conditions, under which dry 

 farming may be successfully operated in any and all districts in the arid 

 countries, may be poisiitiveily known and published for the benefit of the 

 members of this Congreiss." 



Adopted by unanimous vote. 



PUBLISHING DATA. 



"RESOLVED: That it is the sense of the Third Trans-Missouri 

 Dry Farming Congress that in the publications of Official bulletins or 



