Weekly journal-miner., 1911-04-26

but the city that succeeds, the city that goes ahead, is the city that has an agricultural country tributary to it.
 I would suggest that you people will see that the farmers who bring in their products here put up their crops properly. The average farmer is often too careless to look out for his own interests, and if you people can suggest and help him it will be for your mutual benefit. The great trouble with many farmers is that they do not grade their product. If they could recognize that uniform sized potatoes would sell better, it would help the merchant as well as them.
 You have magnificent opportun- ity here for a creamery. You can raise grains of all kinds and corn for sileage for feeding cows .,and can produce good cream. Some may say there will be no demand for the cream. At Cheyenne everybody said creamery was no good, yet the creamery established there four or hNt NtdAo dEu NdnhOl Stl NhOhE cream to supply the demand now.
 Representative MOndell of WyOm- ing got a 320-acre homestead law passed and Senator Shoot got one for Utah. Mir. Mondell's bill applies to Wyoming and Montana, I think. mention this for the reason that believe it would be well for the ques tion to be taken up here so that you could say to new people coming into your state that they would be allowed to file upon 320 acre homestead. do not think 16O acres is sufficient for farmer to make a living upon. Pope said: 'Where grows, where grows it not. in vain our toll; we should blame the culture, not the soil ''
 Now, there is the whole problem in connection with dry farming: We can raise all kinds of crops if we utilize proper agricultural methods. Your opportunities are, in my Opin- ion, somewhat beyond comprehension. You have the soil and precipitation. Your official records of precipitation are far ahead of anything that they are in certain portions of Montana and Wyoming and Western Nebraska. would make another suggestion in connection with the welfare of your town and state, and that IS that you should see that the people whom you get in here are people of some means. Unfortunately, in other states, there are a number of eX- ploiters who have got people to come in without sufficient means. It takes capital to farm. It does not take very much.
 The money that kept me in Wy oming was made up from volunteer subscriptions, City Council, County Council and the Board of Trade. Then the Legislature made an dp- propriatiOn of $5,O00 That, in con- nectiOn with some money that the railroads had put up, kept me, and the next appropriation that was made by the state was $10,000, which was two years ago, and the last appro- priation that was made was for $l0,- 900, by the last Legislature. I just mention this because I 5e- lieve if you people want to succeed in dry farming that it will pay you to have a demonstration farm con- ducted by a man who knows how and a man who has had the expert enee, and have the demonstration farm adjacent to your town. The southeast portion of Wyoming has practically been settled up through the crops raised on the state demon stratiOn farm, one and One-half miles from Cheyenne
 I think it is very important that you be able to show people what you can do. A part of my work has been, outside of conducting the dem Onstration work, to conduct farms in other parts of the state and lecture all over the state of Wyoming, and some of you know that Wyoming is quite like this eOuntry-One of mag nifeent distances. The work has been very encouraging.
 When I first went there, stoekmen had no use for me, as they thought l was going to run them out of the country. I told them that the time mad arrived, in fact, had passed, that 1t was absolutely necessary for them to supplement their winter range with feed, and the stockmen have rec ognized that if the dry farmer will go in and raise feed that they are willing enough to buy it. Nearly a year ago. in the central part of Wy oming, there was half million dol lars sent out for feed, which could have been saved if dry farmers had been there and raised feed that they could have bought.