The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-27
DRY FARMING TO
HAVE A Big FIGHT

bllllngS. Mont, Oct 26-That a big
fight Is TO be made TO change the
name of the Dry Farming congress
became apparent at The very first ses-
sion OF the fourth annual meeting
which convened here today. The
movement cropped out a half dozen
times. and is certain TO be a feature
of every business session until 1t Ia
settled one way or the other. Sue.
gestlonS for suitable substitute for
the word dry" are forthcoming. but
none seems TO suit all the delegates
Some want 1t to be Scientific" while
others favor the term practical
The opening sessions were largely
attended and were Of great interest to
the delegates. The first session was
taken up with the addresses of vel
come the chief of which was that OF
Governor Norris.
Preston D. Moss, chairman of thu
Montana board of control. also wei
coined the delegates.
r1Il Central Figure.
James j. Hill. chairman OF the
board of directors of the Great
Northern railway, who was the cen
trail figure of the morning session,
made a very friendly talk, calculated
to aid the dry farming movement and
incidentally he sounded few words
OF warning. He said in part:
LAS we look down on the Northern
Pacific and see a marvellous work we'll
equipped on fine track from end 10
end, we are apt TO forget that it is
the result of three or four failures.
You had not the people at first. You
might put railroad in garden OF
Eden and If there was nobody there
but Adam and Eve II would be a fail
urc.
Now 1T is easy to build a railroad
In Montana and you want good
many miles of railroad that you have
not now, and III / may just speak a
word OF advice, be good neighbors td
your railroads and depend upon 1t
they Will be good neighbors TO you.
because before they can get one dol.
lar Of products. or get it out of your
products. you have got 10 earn it and
pay for il, and they would no more
inJure you and they would no more
destroy your power TO produce than
the father of good family would de-
stroy or impair the strength or health
VI Nhhui w uol oul Null
dren, but We are In the same boat
with You, and We have got to prosper
with YOU or We have got to be poor
with you.
And the developments 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
development of the west from the fu
ture, and In the very near future
Increase Of Population.
III we increase our population as
IL has Increased, or even at lower
ratio. In 1850 We will have over two
hundred millions of people, Now.
where Will they go and what will they
do? / have full confidence that our
country today, with not to exceed thir
ty people to the square mile. can sup
port and support well one hundred
and 6fty. or five times our present
population. and then We would not be
crowded We need not be afraid that
We cannot take care of these people.
but my anxiety is how they will be
taught. VIII they wait until empty
stomach and absolute hunger drives
them 10 do right. or will they take it
up iiht IhNNlll6thi HiCh lioN lpJ-
low a line that will lead them to sue
cess?
Agriculture Calls for Intelligence.
Modern scientific agriculture calls
for as high an order of intelligence
as any other science.
Now. TO go back to your two hun
dred millions of people. With us In
this country the average consumption
per capita is six and half bushels OF
wheat. but since the high prices OF
meat we find throughout the broad
eating nations the quantity necessary
for bread and seed per capita per an
mum has increased Last year We eX.
ported sixty weight million bushels OF
wheat. or thirty-eight millions bushels
more than we had 10 spare What
was the consequence? When my
farmer ncighbors In Minnesota wero
selling their wheat at Soc and 90c a
bushel | told my man to keep on
ploughing and / would not sell until
spring. ! got dollar and quarter
for mine They got. hope, little
experience IL it has served them this
year are not rushing their wheat to
market, although the Grea Northern
railway is taking from eight hundred
thousand to one million bushels day
to market.
Farmers want to be very careful
while they are marketing their crops
leisurely. not TO carry it so far that
some fellow down in the southern
hemisphere, II may be Australia, IL
may be Argentine. will raise d crop
that he is planting about this time
and have 1t on the market alongside
OF him before they sell theirs.
I'm 1882 we had nearly fifty-two
millions people. and We raised Ave
hundred and four million bushels OF
wheat and exported over two hundred
million bushels and got a very low
price for it. In 1907 we raised six
hundred and thirty-four million bush
els of wheat During that twenty
five years our population increased 6i
per cent. and our wheat yield % per
cent Converting lines meet at tho