Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-10-28
Prominent Among List of Of
ficerS Named for Coming
Year by Gathering Now in
Session at Billings,
ORGANIZATION DECLINES
TO CHANGE ITS NAME
Vote Taken on ], ], Hills Prop
ositiOn Shows Northwest
Empire Builder in Hopeless
Minority,

tBy Morning Journal spec;M Leased WireI
Billings, Mont, oct, 27.--The fca-
ture of the fourth and firth sessions of
the fourth dry farming congress was
the speech of James j. ,Hill, president
of the Great Northern railway. His
talk this attcrnon was devoted to a
showing of the results of the dry
farming movement in Montana and
he proved by figures that the state of
Montana is now to be classcd as an
agricultural state.
Mr. Hin had Il little bad luck be-
cause he wanted the name of the con-
SreSs changed from dry farming to
something that would be less suggest
i've of barren land In this he was
not entirely alone, but when the vote
was taken it proved that there were
too many against him. The vote to
let the name stand was 372 to las.
Addresses were delivered at today S
sessions by Thomas Cooper, assistant
to the president of the Great North
crn railway, Professor w NJ Gardin,
of the United states department OF
agriculture, Professor j G, Fitteror,
ot the University OF Wyoming, Pro-
fessor Walter II, Olin, vice presto ent
of the dry farming congress. Den
Ver, professor II. W Campbell. oi
Lincoln, Neh.; r. r. Parsons, Parker,
Colo; c. r. Worral Clovis, ~ NJ, and
Professor w H. Fairfield. superin-
tondent Of the experimental farm.
Lcthbfidge Canada.
The adoption of the report OF the
executive committee. which embraced
the new constitution of the congress
and the election of officers, occupied
the most of the morning session
The officers of the congress for the
coming year as announced by the re-
port of the committee ON nominations,
which was adopted. thereby elccting
the officers, named the following:
Presidcnt-F. w Mondcll Nyo-
ming
First American vice president
Frank {. bowman. Idaho.
Second American vice president
II. Il. Hening, New Mexico.
Third American vice prcsldent---R
w Thatcher. Washington
Foreign vice George
Alberta. Canada w II.
saskatchewan; Senior
ng Iauro, Niada, Mexico; Laszto
ioyer, Hungary; Dr. Theodore krysh-
ofovitch Russia
Among the members Of the execu-
i've committee are. j u. Tinsley,
lcW Mexico. A. l.. Mordt, oklahoma.
J. A. Martin. Texas.
At the afternoon session II W
known as the father OF
Try farming" delivered an address, In
which he attacked Secretary Wilson
y the department of agriculture He
the warning he had given at
PREVIOUS congresses of moving too fast !
nd insisted that the new settlers of
ne dry lands must be educated to !
heir work or failure VIII come to |
hem
MT Campbell whose experimental
arm operations have covered twenty |
tx years, took occasion to answer See
ctary Wilson, who was quoted recent
as saying that the Campbell sys-
am of dry farming is wrong and
urtful." and that the methods fol-
wed by the dry farmers viii destroy
he fertility Of the soil"
Il regard It as exceedingly unfortu-
ate." said Mr. Campbell. that en-
luragement from official sources
iould be given those who are crying
own and bclittliug the work that
nd all OF u have been doing I'm re-
mt years in relation 10 dry land TIL
e.