The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1910-05-15

| At meeting fthe Washington
Board of Control of the Fifth Dry
! Farming Congress, the announcement
WAS made that the campaign for
| financing the coming session OF t6e
! Congress and the International Dry
Farming Exposition to be held In
connection Herewith, has been or
ganizcd and the preparations for tho
convention are going forward salts
| factorily The Washington board ex-
poets to spend not less than $4,000
in making the Spokane meeting OF
the Congress the most notable In the
history of the organization.
Tho premium committee announced
that the Spokane Chamber Of Com
merce would give a handsome silver
trophy cup To be awarded for the best
dry grown apple exhibited at the
exposition. Announcement was made
In the preceding Issue of the Bulletin
of the offer of the Lethbridge Board
OF Trade to give a silver cup for the
best box OF Mcintosh Red apples.
The premium committee presented
n suggestion that medals and diplo-
mas be awarded Instead of small casn
prizes in the exposition.
The secretary was instructed to
communicate with Professor Walter
G, Brandenburg and cndeavor to Sc
cure his services for the preliminary
campaign Professor Brandenburt.
was the assistant superintendent of
exhibits at the Fourth Dry Farming
Congress and Exposition at Billings.
and later was superintendent OF the
Colorado National Apple Show and
the Colorado Manufacturers and Pure
Food Show at Denver The Washing.
ton board wishes to secure him to
canvass the Inland Empire in the In
terests of the Fifth Congress and Ex-
position. The plan is to have him
visit every farming community in tho
district and address the commercial
bodies and farmers associations 20
arouse their interest and secure their
cooperation in the preparation for the
coming meeting. urge them TO arrange
for suitable exhibits and organize rep
resentative delegations to attend the
Congress-
Governor NJ. f. Hay of Washington
addressed the Washington Board OF
Control. expressing his hearty inter
est in the coming meeting. He urged
upon the commercial bodies and farm
ers' societies OF tho Northwest, par
ticularly those In the Inland Empire
section. the advantage of thorough
cooperation with the board in making
arrangements for the Congress and
Exposition. saying:
The practical education of the
farmers OF Washington In better
methods of agriculture which will re,
suit from the holding of the Fifth
Dry Farming Congress at Spokane,
will be worth many times the cost
of entertaining this international con-
ventlon. and will return high interest
on the Investment through all time
to come. Both as an official of the
state of Washington and as citizen,
| am deeply interested in the move
ment represented by tho Dry Farming
Congress 1t Is a movement which
means greater development of every
agricultural section Of the west and
means superlative benefits to tho In
land Empire through the education
In better methods OF every farmer
and fruit grower in tho Northwest
There Is no better class OF agricul.
turists in the world than these Inland
Empire farmers and fruit growers but
there are many problems peculiar to
the Northwest and to other sections
less favored climatically, which the
Dry Farming Congress Is solving, and
its work Will result In better haryests
when our farmers and orchardists
learn the principles OF the higher ag-
riculture and npply the so-caled dry
farming methods In the Improvement
of their crops