Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-05-26
DEEP INTEREST \
DRY FARMING
CONGRESS
Services of American ConSuIS
Abroad Enlisted to Gather In
formation Concerning Work
in Various Parts of World.

Especial Correspondence 10 Morning Journal
Billings. Mont. May 23.-in re-
spouse to a cali from the department
Of state to the American consuls IN
various parts of the world for infor-
nation regarding dry farm methods,
numerous replies have been received
II Washington and transmitted to the
International headquarters Of the DRY
Farming congress where the ihforma
,ion contained in these reports Is be-
ing classified and prepared for publ
,ation in the bulletins issued by the
congress to its members n also in
the press bulletins which are sent T.
newspapers throughout the country
This Is but The beginning OF the larger
work of the Dry Farming congress
N its international capacity and is the
f|ruition Of the resolution passed at
the third congress at Cheyenne which
made provision for the interchange II
iata between the government OF lhi'
md other countries ana the DRY
! Farming ongre for the purpose q.
extending the educational propaganda
Of the congress
Amoag the reports received is oH'
! from Georfe n. West, consul genera
NJ Vancouver, British Columbia, vhe
says:
The most reliable info; nation tha
IAN he obtained IN the subject of 'Dl'
Farming Methods in this province,
that contained in Bulletin No. 10, pu'
lished by authority of the p%rovinclP
government, from which | quote 2
follows:
"7l4cre are many hundred thou
sands Of acres which may be classe
as arid land and to which it seems i'm
rossible to supply water, unless som
genius shall arise with a new schen'
md methods now unknown TO i"riga
ton exports, In southern lale alon
there arc nearly 1000, 600 acres whic'
are practically valuelcss Except r
pasture and as it takes many Of thes
acres to support . single hehd O
stoc;1 n very extensive region seen
doomed to remain Indefinitely an a
most uninhabitcd wilderness. lrr'
yated and sown with fodder crop'
those lands would iced ten times tn
number Of cattle. but planted Wi
fruit. grain and vegetables. each tort
acres would support at least three I
live people. or Mt q conservative cstl
mate a population Of 20o.ooO
"There are ut least W. cascs II
british Columbia in which crops ar
being successfully grown on ian
which had been considered worthleF
for agricultural purposes on accoun
of It's altitude and the impoSsiDih
of getting water to It.. one of th"
EXAMPLES of dry farming is on what
known as the Commonage, near Ntr
ron. and the other on the upl1n"'
r.ar Midway. The success which ha
,ttendcd these cXperiments viii douhf
legs our others to take up SCI
entiflc farming-for that is JUST WhF
dro farming is-nnd In time much g
mo land tina Is now given up to sag
brush. cactus and bunch grass WI
Weld plentiful crops of grain. irnt M
vegetables
without doubt as the province be
comes more thiekly populated an
tho price Of farm land increases J.
cal,e and the demand for farm proc
mrs increases. much Of this IAN
win. bv some means be made 70 D.
productive. either by a system Of IT
rieation that viii be developed on 70
limited scale. or the adoption oil ar
farming methods that have proved
no successful in other localities.
The rainfall and snowfall are give
in a government bulletin quoted b.
Mr. West. At Midway the annual
rainfall is s.72 inches and the snow
fan 30 inches at Vernon the rain
fail is II inches and the snowfall 8