THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



water when lie can to supplement the rain, and has a vegetable and 

 fruit garden, which he can irrigate by a windmill or gasoline engine 

 irrigation when rains do not come at proper times for best results. 

 Such a man makes the dairy cow, the hen or the hog, bring in a rega- 

 lar income, incidentally manufacturing cheap foods into desired market 

 products. Good business management often measures the difference 

 between success and failure. 



Education Necessary. 



"A farmer who, in these days reads the experiences of his fellow 

 farmers in other states, under similar conditions to his own, who keeps 

 abreast of rural throught and action today, studies the why and how 

 ai]d when and never lets up until he wrests success from the struggle, 

 is the one who wins out in the end." 



FOREIGN INTEREST. 



GOV. BROOKS (presiding) : "We have present at this session 

 many distinguished delegates from other countries, representatives 

 from other nations and they have requested Senator McColl of 

 Australia, to make a few remarks in their behalf, before the close of 

 this convention, and I take this opportunity to introduce Senator 

 McColl for that purpose." 



SENATOR McCOLL: "Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen: I 

 have been requested by the foreign delegates who have been present 

 at this Congress, that is, Senor L. Baeta-Neves, Brazil; J. A. Rosen, 

 Department of Agriculture, Russia; Senor Romulo Escobar, Special 

 Delegate from Mexico; Dr. William Macdonald, from the Transvaal; 

 Mr. D. W, Warner and Mr. Fairfield, from Canada, as well as myself, 

 to return to the Executive Committee of this Congress, and to you, 

 Your Excellency, to the Mayor and all the Citizens of Cheyenne, our 

 grateful thanks for the kind reception and most hospitable and graci- 

 ous treatment we have received since we came to this city. We have 

 come a long ways to attend this Congress; in fact, Dr. Macdonald and 

 I have circled the globe. He went one way and I went the other and 

 we met in Cheyenne. I do not know if in America ever before so many 

 representatives of foreign nations have met, at any rate I suppose not 

 in the West. Anyway, it took two 'Macks' to do it; Macdonald and 

 McColl. Now it seems to me that such a meeting as this is prophetic. 

 Here we have South Africa and Australia, meeting in the middle of 

 America. Is that not prophetic? We are met on a pacific errand to 

 try and subdue, not our enemies by engines of destruction, but our 

 natural enemies for the benefit of humanity, and should it not be so, 

 sir, that in the future that we will have these nations that are met in 

 their humble representations such as ourselves shall never again meet 

 i]i any other way, but shall join hands altogether in peace and amity 

 working together for the good of humanity and for the world at large. 

 I trust this movement will be persevered with and that it will go ahead. 



