The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-03-16
READY FOR
Distribution
Preliminary Premium List for Dry
Farming Congress Which VIII
Be Held in Spokane During
Coming Autumn.

SPOKANE, Wash. March. IA
The preliminary premium list for the
International Dry Farming Exposition
which will be held October to y
in connection with the Fifth DyN
Farming Congress in spokane. pre-
pared by Professor w. II. DIN. Of
Colorado. superintendent ot premiums
and awards of the exposition pro-
vides for premiums aggregating sew
eral thousand dollars in value. A
number of handsome trophy cups will
he awarded in the sweepstakes and
special classes and cups and cash
prizes in the general classes which
cover every field of agriculture in the
dry farming regions. Ample provision
is made for the competitors from
countries and provinces outside the
United States, as the exposition. like
the congress. is international and en-
braces every country where dry farm
ing is practicable. Thirty-two sweep
stakes premiums in the general eN-
hibits and special classes alone are
offered for international competition.
More than 200 lots of products are
named in the classified agricultural
and horticultural divisions.
Exhibitors at the exposition will
have an opportunity to compete for
two sets of premiums. The Spokane
Interstate fair will take place Octo-
her 8 to S on the same grounds. but
in separate buildings. and dry farmers
will he permitted to enter exhibits in
both cven,s. There will be $4,000
cash premiums offered by the fair as
ISOLATION and drv farm exhibitors NAV
compete for these by bringing double
samples. one to be shown in the eN-
position and the other in the fair.
Rules governing the Dry Farming
exposition are being forwarded by
Professor DIN. At previous dry farm
ing oppositions, the rule has been TO
restrict the exhibits to products grown
without irrigation, sub-irriGation or
Seepage in regions OF not more than
20 inches annual precipitation. This
rule has been found Inadequate. as it
bars farmers in some regions from
participating in the competition,
There are parts of oklahoma and 9TH
er western states whore the annual
precipitation is more than 20 inches,
according to the weather bureau roe
ords, but which are essentially dry
farming districts because the distribu-
ton of the rainfall throughout the
wear, the high rate of evaporation, or
other climatic phenomena make dry
farming methods necessary to the sue
cessful production of crops on com
mercial scale. Hence a modification
of tho rules was deemed advisable
this year.
Professor Oln is working on this
problem. 1t has been suggested that
the net precipitation available for
raising crops he made the basis IN de-
termining the classification of dis
tricts as dry or humid farming terri
tory To arrive at the net available
precipitation, it Is necessary To con-
slider the total annual rainfall. its
monthly distribution and the rate of
evaporation. Professor DIN believes
in generally retaining the 20 inch
maximum precipitation in defining
dry farming areas, but with such mod
iiication that Will permit bona fide
dry farmers in distinctly dry farming
districts to compete on equal terms
with the dry farmers in regions most
deficient in annual precipitation.