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other publications of this Congress, no special system of so-called dry 

 farming, or scientific methods shall be advocated, but that the Congress 

 shall aim to give as much definite information about each and all sys- 

 tems, or the work of any and all experimentors as may be possible to 

 assemble from time to time. 

 Adopted by unanimous vote. 



FOREIGN INFORMATION. 



"RESOLVED: That the Department of State of the United States 

 Government be requested to co-operate with the Executive officers of the 

 Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress in assembling information about 

 arid farming conditions and operations in foreign countries, and that a 

 system of official reports from the arid districts of the world be arranged 

 between the officers of the Congress and the Department of State, by 

 which the arid farmers of America may understand the conditions imder 

 which dry farming operations succeed or fail in the various sections 

 of the world." 



PROP. CHILCOTT: "I would say briefly in connection with this, 

 that our Secretary, Mr. Burns, wrote the Secretary of State asking him 

 to provide some of this information. That letter was referred to my 

 office with the information that the Secretary of State would be glad to 

 take up this work, but that there was not time to get the information for 

 this Congress. So I think there is no doubt about this being reserved 

 well by the Department of State. I move the adoption of this reso- 

 lution." 



"Motion duly seconded and carried. 



FIELD COMMISSIONER. 



"RESOLVED: That the Executive Committee of this Congress be 

 urged, provided it is possible to finance the Congress to this extent, 

 to employ, under the direction of the general secretary of the Congress, 

 a Field Commissioner, whose duty it shall be to visit the various arid 

 states of the West, study conditions, report the same to the Congress, 

 address farmers' meetings, institutes, etc., and do whatever other work 

 of a similar nature may be deemed advisable by the Secretary of the 

 Congress." 



Adopted by unanimous vote. 



RECOGNITION FOR MONDELL. 



"RESOLVED: That the splendid service in behalf of the West by 

 Honorable Frank W. Mondell, Congressman at large from Wyoming, in 

 securing the passage of the 320 acre Dry Farming Homestead Law, be 

 recognized by this Congress by the passage of this resolution, and the 

 forwarding to Mr. Mondell by the Secretary of this Congress a tele- 

 gram expressing our appreciation of his work." 



