Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-27
DELEGATES WANT
DRY FARMING TO
HAVE NEW NAME
CONGRESS AT BILLINGS, MONT,
WOULD CHANGE TITLE
SUITABLE SUBSTITUTE CANNOT
BE SUGGESTED
Gov. Norris of Silver State, Together
with Others, Welcomes Repre-
sentatives to Convention of
Crop Boosters
tBy Associated Press. |

/ came apparent ut lHe ul9t SSSsiOA4 -
the fourth annual convention here to-
day.
suggestions for a suitable substitute
for the word dry are forthcoming
but do not seem to suit all the dele
gates. Some-want it to be "scientihc !.
while others favor the term practical,
The opening sessions were largely
/ attended and were of great interest 10
the delegates. The first session was
taken up with the addresses Of wei.
come, the chief of which was that Oh
/ Governor Norris.
Preston D. Ness, chairman Of the
/ Montana board of control also "el-
coined the delegates.
James J. Hill, chairman of the board
of directors of the Great Northern
railway, who was the central figure Oh
/ the morning session, made friendly
/ talk, calculated to aid the dry tarIn-
/ ing movement and incidentally ne
sounded a few words of warning. lie
said in part: .,.-
CAS- we look down on the Northern
Pacific and see a marvellous work Wen
equipped on a fine track from enu 10
| end. we are apt to forget that 1t Is the
result of three or four failures. You
had NOT the people at first. You might
put a. railroad in the garden Of Eden
/ and If there was nobody there but
Adam and Eve it would be failure
Easy to Build Railroad
"Now it is easy to build railroad
| in Montana and you want good many
miles of road you have not now anu
/ IL I may speak a word of advice, De
good neghbors to your railroads anu
depend upon it they will be good nelgh-
bors to you; because before they can
get one dollar of product, or get II OUT
of your products, you nave eol ~
earn n and nav for it, and they would
no more injure you and they would no
more destroy your power to produce
Than the father of a good family Would
destroy or impair the strength OF
health of his children. You are not
our childreng but we are in the SAME
boat with you, and we nave got " "
prosper with you or We have got 10
be poor with you.
| "And the development Of the west IN
the past; let US relegate 1t TO the
past. and the development that we are
more concerned with today is the ueVei,
opment of the west in the future anu
in the very near future. ;.
IF we increase our population as II
has Increased, or even at lower raIlo.
in 1850 we will have over 2OO,OOO,OOO OF
Deon1e Now, where will they go anu
what win they do2 I have full conn
dence that our country today, WIN hoI
to exceed thirty people to the sguare So sI
mile, can support and support Wen Nv ~
times our present popuIatlon, anu 'II9t -rn4
we would not be crowded. we neeu not
he afraid that we cannot take care OF
| these people, but my anxiety Is now
thew will be taught. VIII they Wal'
until an empty stomach and absolute
hunger drive them to do right! VI
will they. take it up like intelligent men
and now follow a line that Will leao
them to succes&
Calls for High Intelligence
Modern scientific agriculture calls
for as high an order of Intelligence as
any other science. so.
@Now, to go back to your 20O,OOO,OW OF
people. with us in this country the
average consumption per capita IS SIX
and half bushels of wheat, but since
the high price of meat we find through
out the bread eating nations the quan-
titv necessary for bread and seed per
capita per annum has increased. Last
wear we exported 6S,000,000 bushels OF
wheat, or 38,000000 bushels more than
we had to spare. What was the conse-
quence?
'rWhen my farmer neighbors in Min
nesota were selling their wheat at 81
and 30 cents n DuSIGlt L lOlu lily man ~
keep on ploWing and I would not sell
until spring. 1 got SIPS for mine. They
got, I hope, a little experience. If II
has served them this year they are not
rushing their wheat to market, al
though the Great Northern railway is
taking from 100000 to 100000 bushels
a day to market
Farmers want to be very carefu
while they are marketing their crops
leisurely not to carry 1t so far that
some fellow down in the southern hem-
isphere-it may be Australia, it may be
Argentine-will raise a crop that he is
planting about this time and have Il
on the market alongside of him before
they sell theirs.
'In 1882 we had nearly 52,000,000 peo
pie, and we raised 504,000 900 bushels OF
wheat and exported over 200,000,0O
bushels, and got a very low price for it
In 1907 we raised 6340OO000 bushels o
wheat. During that twenty-five years
our population increased 64 per cen
and our wheat decreased 20 per cent.
More Wheat Required
Zach year the country requires 15,
O00, 600 bushels of wheat more than tht
preceding year. In five years that il
rs, 900 900 bushels. I know I was no
talking at random when I said tina
within ten years we would become ;
non-eXporting country unless w
changed our methods"
The sessions of the congress are pre-
sided over by Governor Norris VIII
assumed charge of the deliberations i'm
mediately after Franck c. Bowman 0
Idaho Falls had called it to order
Other speeches We're made by Mayo
H. ]. Thompson Of Billings; w. A
Solving, president of the Billings cham
ber of commerce, and DR. John A
Widtsoe president of the Agriculture
College Of Utah.
At the afternoon session the repor
of the executive committee was of
fered, but consideration of it was post
poned until tomorrow morning, TO
which time it Was made a special order
Set speeches were delivered by II. +
Chamberlain, superintendent of tn
5 Farmers Institute, South Dakota, VIII
a spoke on "Dry Farming Good Farm
t ing"
!. "Some Things We Do Not Knoy
e About Dr-y Farming" was the title of
paper by Prof. b. c. Buffum, Worlant
d Wyo., and was a feature Of the after
s noon.
The following letter from secretar
i Wilson Of the department of agricul
s ture was read:
Wilson's Letter Read
k John T. Burns, Secretary Treasure
Dry Farming Congress, Billing
t Mont:
e ''Dear Mr.. Burns-We have dry land
with light rainfall over nearly half tn