Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-17
PLANS MATURING
FOR ARID FARMERS
President Harris Working to Sc
cure Aid Of Prominent
Salt LakerS.
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION.
they Have Been Selected ana Circu-
lars Have Been Sent Out Telling
OF General Purposes.

Plans TO get all salt LaSers pulling
together for a big Arid Farm congress
here in January, are now maturing.
Leaders In the movement are asking
why Salt Lake should be less hospita-
BILE than Denver, and less able 20 stir
community interest in a convention
which will help 20 spread Salt Lakes
fame as a good convention town.
The convention topics are already
prepared. and leading arid farmers
from the west win be assigned papers
covering the various points OF inter-
est The general field Of discussion
viii embrace the following:
The consideration of the best meth
DDS Of rendering tho lands Of the semi
arid west productive where ditch ir-
riga ton Is impraCticable
The determination OF the best agri-
cultural methods whore crop and live
stock farming IS practicable.
To encourage the establishment Of
experimental farms TO determine the
limitations Of scientific soil CULTURE ana
seed selection. these farms 90 "a oper-
ated under the direction Of state and
federal experiment stations or private
enterprise
To asst the prospective settler IN
every practical way 20 determine what
land under scientific soil culture meth
DDS is susceptible ~ crop production.
To encourage the use Of every con-
servative practical method for Develop
ing the semi-arid regions of America
WHO MAY ATTEND.
Representation at the congress will
be as follows. according TO circulars
Just sent out:
The governor Of east state and terri
tory NAV appoint 10 and not more than
90 delegates
The mayor Of each city, five and not
more than 10 delegates
The county commissioners or each
county. Ave and not more than 10 dele
gates
National and state Agricultural as.
sociatious. not more than FIVE delegates
each.
Railroad companies. not more than
four delegates each.
Chambers ~ commerce, commercial
clubs and other commercial bodies two
delegates each.
L. s. senate and congressman. the
secretary of agriculture and his as
sistants. governors Of states, officers OF
state agricultural COLLEGES officers OF
state universities ENGAGED IN aR~'oul-
turaltural work, Cf1rrrs OF united
States and state experiment stations,
state engineers ana members n state
land boards by virtue ~ their position,
VIII be entitled to membership in the
congress.
II IS earnestly urged that AL author
ized 70 apuoint delegates shall elect
such persons as are known 20 he vitality
interested en- the subjects that Will nat
uraUv come under discussion.
The committee having charge Of the
program for the convention has ar
ranged FOR a four days session. dur
ing which addresses Of great value will
be made by scientists End nrac.ira'
farmers who have made n life study
Of soil culture IN the semi-7rid regions
II the T~aneunissouri country.
II IS believed that the successful ac-
comnliehment Of the purposes Of this
congress IS OF profound inheritance 10
the country. as n VIII mean increased
population. more homes. more produ-
GERS. more wealth wider markets for
the manufa cturer-in short. more of
everything that is Desirable ana nee
ossary for the we'l-being Of the nation.