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THANKS FROM BRITISH DELEGATE. 



DR. MACDONALD: "Ladies and Gentlemen: You must be very 

 fred by this time of the day, and I do not wish to detain you more than 

 a few m.oments, but in these few moments I wish to convey to you on 

 behalf of the Government of the Transvaal and the British Colonial 

 Office my most hearty thanks to his Honor, the Mayor of Cheyenne 

 and to every citizen for the magnificent hospitality with which you 

 have received the delegat^es. In the words of the distinguished gentle- 

 man from Brazil: 'It is so impossible to feel homesick in Cheyenne.' 

 And there is one thing that I like to think of, and that is that you have 

 raised a countryman of my own to the highest position in your city. 

 I refer to the mayor. I believe Mr. Cook hails from the city of 

 Aberdeen, a town, gentlemen, which has long been renouned for send- 

 ing forth to the United States and the British Empire men possessed of 

 character and enterprise, which I am assured are eminently possessed 

 by your worthy mayor. But I think, gentlemen, that he would allow 

 me to claim a quality which perhaps he does not possess in such an 

 eminent degree. I refer to the quality of prophecy, or what in the 

 West is termed second sight, and I wish so to use that quality tonight, 

 and to say to you that I make bold to prophecy that your beautiful 

 city, standing as a sentinel at the gate of this great state, is destined 

 in the near future to become one, of the most splendid cities of any in 

 the West. On returning home I shall not hesitate to convey to the 

 Prime Minister of the Transvaal and to the Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies my most eloquent appreciation of the splendid welcome which 

 you have given to the humble representative." 



HOW I MADE GOOD AT DRY FARMING. 



By E. R. Parsons, Dry Farmer, Parker, Colo. 



MR. PARSONS: "I have been dry farming in Colorado since 1880. 

 in thoise days they used to call us dry prairie farmers and drylanders, 

 not because they thought we farmed without moisture, but becouse 

 we farmed the dry prairie or land which was dry before we farmed it. 



Alfalfa Corn. 



"Before coming to this country I had already had some pretty dry 

 farming experiences in South Africa raising alfalfa or lucerne, as 

 they called it there, and corn. My methods of agriculture were 

 naturally those of England and other European countries, where the 

 most intensive and scientific form of farming prevails, some of the 

 land having been under cultivation for a thousand years and still aver- 

 aging its thirty bushels of wheat to the acre. 



Soil Treatment. 



"Over there they plow from ten to fifteen inches, and fallow 

 between every crop, to keep the weeds out and accumulate plant food. 



