Arizona republican., 1909-10-27
CANNOT AGREE ON II
Uncle Jim Hill Addresses His Children on the Rela- tion Of the Northern Pa cific to Them-Also Talks of Crops and Markets.

Billings, Mont, Oct 26.-That a big fight is to be made to change the name of the Dry Farming Congress became apparent at the first session of the fourth annual convention here today Suggestions for a suitable sub stitute for the word dry" are forth coming. but they do not seem to suit all the delegates. Some want it to be scientific" while others want it termed 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 welcome, the chief of which was that of Governor Norris. Preston L. Moss. chairman of the board of control. also Hill. chairman of the board of direct ors of the Great Northern railway. who was the central figure at the morning session, made friendly talk. calculated to aid the dry farming movement and incidentally he sounded a few words of warning
 He said in part: As we look down on the Northern Pacific and see it's marvellous work, well equipped. on a fine track from end to 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 a railroad in the Garden of Eden and if there was nobody there but Adam and Eve it would be a failure.
 Now. it is easy to build a railroad in Montana, and you want a good many miles of railroad that you have not now, and if l may just speak a word of advice, be good neighbors to your railroads and depend upon it they will be good neighbors to you, because before they can get one dol lar out of your products, you have got to earn it and pay 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 wold destroy or impair the strength or health of his chill dren. You are not our children. 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.
 Let us relegate the development of the west in the past to the past The development that we are more concerned with today is the develop ment of the west in the future, and the very near future. Modern scien- tific agriculture calls for as high an order of intelligence as any other science. With us in this country. the average consumption per capita is six and one-half bushels of wheat, but since the high price of meat, We find throughout the bread-eating na- tions that the quantity necessary for bread and seed per capita per an- mum has increased. Las year we ex- ported 6s ,OOO. 900 bushels of wheat, or 3S. .O00 bushels more than we had to spare. What was the consequence? When my farmer neighbors in Min nesota were selling their wheat at S5 and 90 cents a bushel. l told my man to keep on ploughing. and II would not sell until spring. l got dollar and a quarter for mine. They got. I hope, a little experience. It has served them this year; they are not rushing their wheat to market. although the Great Northern railway is taking from S00,000 to 100000 bushels a day to market
 Farmers want to be very careful while they are marketing their crops leisureIy. not to carry it so far that some fellow down in the southern hemisphere, it may be Australia, 1t may be Argentine. will raise crop that he is planting about this time and have it on the market before they sell theirs.
 Each year the country requires l5,- GOO. 900 bushels of wheat more than the preceding year. In five years that is 75. .O0O. 900 bushels I know l was not talking at random when said that within ten years we would be- come a non- n-exporting country. unless we changed cur methods"
 Speeches were made by Mayor H. J Thompson Of Billings; w A. Salv- ing. president of the Billings cham her of commerce. and pr. J. A. Widt- soa. president of the Agricultural col lege of Utah.
 At the afternoon session the report of the executive committee was of- fered. but consideration of it was postponed until tomorrow morning. for which time it was made a special order
 Set speeches were delivered by R. F.. Chamberlain. superintendent of the