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THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Sugar Beets, Tomatoes. 



"Our soil both on the riven bottoms as well as on the upland 

 prairies will produce excellent crops of sugar beets and all other root 

 crops. I have had excellent success with tomatoes during the past two 

 years. 



Campbell System. 



"In closing I wish to express my high appreciation of, and respect 

 for the work done, and his great services to the various questions of 

 soil culture in the plains region of our great West, and I believe I ex- 

 press also the feelings of the delegates of this Congress when I refer 

 to H. W. Campbell." 



HAS THE FARMER ON THE NON-IRRIGATED LAND 

 MADE GOOD? 



By Walter H. Olin, Agronomist and Statistician of the Congress. 



"I have been so busy and so much interested in assisting to secure 

 find arrange the dry farming exhibits for this Congress that I have not 

 had time to prepare a paper, and I don't know as I could stay by the 

 text if I had. The exposition, however, demonstrajtes, better than I 

 could tell you that some dry farmers at least have made good. I se- 

 lected this title for my talk because about the time that Secretary 

 Burns asked me if I wouldn't have a word to say to the Congress, 

 rumors dire and fearful were coming up from certain sections of our 

 western lands intimating that the farmers were not making good, and 

 in some localities were thinking they would have to go back east. 

 Ladies and gentlemen, that is just what you and I have got to stand 

 up and face because we are members of this Dry Farming Congress, 

 from those who are knocking upon us. Where there is one man that 

 Majority Are Succeeding. 



fails, I want to say that my correspondence from North Dakota to 

 California, and from Washington to Texas, indicates that there are 

 nine hundred and ninety-nine men that are making good, and I say, 

 'Stand by your colors,' and I believe that we will be able to convince 

 them in this section, as forty years ago they convinced them in my 

 native state of California, that they could raise good crops, could make 

 a living and obtain a bank account, if they used in a logical way the 

 rainfall that providence gave to them. So much with reference to 

 these reports. I wish to say that our good friends the newspaper 

 writers have not belied us. I believe they are with us this time, and 

 they want to disseminate the truths that have been advanced in this and 

 preceding Congresses. I hope that the work of the statistical depart- 

 ment of this Congress will be classified and made to gather i^ facts 

 that will be incontrovertible, so that when repprts come up from this 

 section, or that section, that the secretary can find facts from the 

 farmers themselves that will negafy the rumors coming to us. 



