The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-26
DRY FARMERS
WILL GATHER
IN BILLINGS NEXT OCTOBER
AND DISCUSS NEW AND
SCIENTIFIC FARMING

The Fourth Dry Farming Congress
will meet at Billings, Montana, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday Oc-
tober 2e, p and %, 1909.
The Second International Exposi-
ton of Dry Farm Products will be
held at Billings, from Monday until
Friday, October 25 to 20, inclusive.
This will be the largest and most i'm
portant convention in the West this
year and will bring to Montana sew
eral thousand delegates representing
every western state and many for
eign nations and will be attended by
large numbers of practical farmers
from all parts of the country. The
deliberations of the Congress will be
marked by discussions of the prob
lens which the farmers in the arid
and semi-arid districts are facing
and which the Dry Farming Congress
is helping to solve. AT the 1nterna-
tional Exposition Of Dry Farm Pro-
ducts there will be exhibits of crops
from every state west of the Missou-
ri River and from Canada, Mexico,
Russia and other foreign countries.
Montana will have the largest exhit-
it of any western state and already
farmers in various parts of the state
are planting crops with the especial
view of harvesting grains, grasses or
other products to be displayed at the
Exposition.
The Dry Farming Congress now
has more than 1900 MEMBERS; the
list is being increased at the rate OF
about $50 month. Throughout
Montana farmers and business men
who are interested III the agricultur-
al development of the state are sub
scribing to the Congress in order to
receive the bulletins and other liter
ature issued from the international
headquarters and which is sent free
to members. An affiliated member
ship costs one dollar year and life
membership ten dollars. The pay
ment of the fee entities the member
to the copy of the official
proceedings of the Congress, issued
as handbook for farmers, the Dry
Farming Congress bulletin, issued
twice a month and containing valua-
BILE articles by agronomists and prac-
tical farmers and reports from the
consular agents of the United States
and departments of agriculture of
other countries showing the progress
of agriculture, especially that of
arid and semi-arid districts. In ad-
dition to the publications issued by
the Congress we'll equipped press
bureau is maintained which furnish
es the public press with stories on
dry farming and the work OF the
Congress. The value of this public
ity to the state in which the sessions
of the Congress are held is patent.
This year Montana is getting the
lions share of this publicity and the
results is being shown in the atten-
ton that has been attracted to this
state and reflected in the increasing
immigration of homeseekers. The
Congress desires and feels sure OF the
cooperation of the press OF the state
in carving on it's educational work
and spreading the propaganda of Dry
Farming among the settlers to whom
instructions in methods of agricul-
ture that will insure successful crops
is of paramount value.
The arrangements for the enter
tainment of the coming Congress is
is the hands of the Montana Board of
Control of which p. b. Moss of Bill
lings, is Chairman, John Il. Burns,
Secretary and l. ID. O'DOnnell,
Treasurer. This Board is composed
of members representing each coun-
ty and practically all of the impor-
tant towns of the state and the cham
bers of commerce and other civic Or
ganizations and the railroads.
Governor Edwin L. Norris, Presi-
dent of the Dry Congress has sent
invitations to all the governors of
the states west of the Mississippi
River to attend the Congress at Bill
lings and responses from various
parts of this country and from the
foreign lands where there are men,
berships in the Congress Indicate
that the Fourth Congress will be the
largest and most significant in the
history of the organization. 1t is
highly important, in order that Mon
tana shall get the maximum benefit