The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-14
DRY FARMING EX.
HIBlT RULES
Especial to Silver State News)

Board of Control Of the Fourth Dry
Farming congress, consisting of DR.. w.
X. Sudduth, l. D. O'Donnell and w.
b. George, has announced the follow
ing revised rules to govern the Inter
national Dry Farm exposition, which
will be held October 25.29, inclucive,
at Billings, in connection with the
Fourth Dry Farming congress, which
will be in session at Billings October
1928:
The object of this exhibit is to show
various crops grown on non-irrigated
lands of the world during 1909 Each
delegate to the congress should, there
fore, take a personal interest in seeing
that his district or section has crop
exhibits entered.
Rule 1. All farmers Giving where
rainfall is less than 20 inches per an
num) depending solely upon rainfall
to grow and mature crops, are eligible
to compete for premiums at this Dry
Farming congress.
Rule 2. Exhibits shall represent
!, crops season of 1909 and shall not
have been grown upon irrigated, sub
irrigated or seepage land.
Rule 8. All individual exhibits shall
have been grown by bona fide ranch
men, stockmen and farmers. The col
lective exhibits or general display
classes are open to any individual,
firm, club or community.
Rule 4. General display classes
shall b eopen to any individual, firm,
club or community.
Rule 5. A class for special exhibits
will be made up later, depending upon
the premiums offered therein.
Directions for Preparing Exhibits.
/. Preparing Shelf Exhibits Of
Grain.
Select desirable heads just as the
grain enters the yellow ripe stage.
Choose well filed heads that will make
a good representative showing for the
type of grain which you desire to ex.
hibit. Cut the straw close to the
ground so as to exhibit full length of
straw, or if the grain has been cut
select best heads with stems long al
, possible. Make sample not to exceed
200 heads. Tie with soft cloth or mar
: row ribbon just under heads, at butts
!, and in center of bundle and place in
s darkened room to cure or ripen. Wher
time permits, unite the bundle, spread
out, moisten straws by sprinkling and
strip all adhering leavese, polish eacl
straw with soft cloth and re-bind thu
bundle with any narrow ribbon Of ap
propriate color, tying firmly in at leas
: three or four places. See that all head
are evenly placed, making one com
pact, circular bush. This is very i'm
portant. Do not use string in tyin,
bundles or gain. See that each sam
pie is neatly and accurately labeled
: wrap in thin soft cloth and suspend
with the heads down, in free curren
of air in a dry place and out of tn,
;, bleaching effect of the sun.
2. Preparing Sheaf Exhibit Of For
IA age.
y Select the most leafy types to b.
II found in the field, taking best an,
&c most erect individual specimens oh
u tainable. Cut close to the ground
y put in loose bundle not more thar
y four or five inches in diameter, loosel,
Y wrap in paper or thin, porous cloth an
hang in the dark to cure. To retail
is color, forage sample must be dried o
ir cured in the dark, but with plenty o
If dry air. When well cured, select tn
II individual stems that have retaine
the best leaves with their leaf colo
and make up exhibit bundle inche
X in diameter. Do not strip singl
leaf or branchlet from the stem. sine
A. we are to show for forage values an
g want to retain all the leaves possibl,
ar Timothy, broom grass, orchard gras
t. millet and other grass samples al
he spoiled for forage samples by striy
re ping. Tie neatly with narrow ribbo
in in three or four places. 1t is desirabl
to take samples giving full length Q
stems at each cutting of clover, alfalf
or other forage cut more than once i
Is the season, giving date of each Gu
&. ting A collection of native grasst
,g should, in each instance, show seed {
es head, either in blossom or full see
70 with full lanrth of Straw nr ctaYn
or 3. Threshed Grain Samples.
~ Threshed grain samples should b
al run through tanning mill to blow o,
-. all chaff, dirty weed seed and ligl
weight kernels Samples should eol
sist of Is to 20 pounds.