The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-09-30
DRY FARMING INCREASES.

Spokane, WASH, Sept. 27.-"Com.
paratively few people ever think oil
Idaho as dry farming state, and II
is not one. primarily; but great
deal of land in various sections IL
being dry farmed, and there are Sc.
veral million acres yet to be reclaim.
ed by dry farming methods"
Professor F. D. Farrell OF Caldwell
director of the Southern Idaho sub.
stations. says this Is ahi interesting
article on The Progress OF Dry
Farming" in the Dry Farming Con-
gress Bulletin, which will be issued
at the opening of the fifth sessions OF
the Dry Farming Congress and third
International exposition in Spokane
on October 8.
These facts are usually somewhat
obscured by the splendid activity on
the irrigated lands" he adds in brief.
while the irrigated lands are the
most talked-of and the greatest out
let for investment, the state has dry
land areas as large as several eastern
states that probably will never be+ir-
rigated but can be successfully dry
farmed."
Frank C. Bowman of Idaho Falls,
first vice-president of the congress,
also has a lengthy article, dealing
with dry farming in the upper Snake
river valley in Idaho, in the Bulletin,
In which he says there are from $780,
600 to 100000 acres of land in
Bingham and Fremont counties sus-
ceptible to this method OF cultivation.
Mr.. Bowman probably will preside
over the convention in the absence
of Congressman f. w. Mondell of
Wyoming, who is reported to be criti-
cally sick in his home at Newcastle.
Exhibits of dry farmed products
have been received from various
parts of Idaho, among others being
displays of Turkey wheat from the
4,O00-acre farm on the desert &C
ross the river from American Falls.
This farm is managed by w. H. Phil
brick, e-committeeman for
Idaho OF the congress. J. w. Hays,
who is farming in the foothills few
miles east of, American Falls, and
farmers in Oneida county are pro-
ducing from 20 to 35 bushels of
wheat the acre where there were
once abandoned ranches. Another
exhibitor is Frank Gribbin of Weiser.
and Don Burris of Weiser, who has
lao acres in broom corn will show
samples of fibres grown by dry farm
ng methods. Exhibits are also ex-
,ected from other parts of the Gem
state.
President Taft will formally open
he congress the evening of October
by pressing a gold button at Bever-
y, Mass. 1t is expected there will be |
$500 delegates. Besides the ses-
lions of the congress and exposition,
It which $4,000 will be distributed
II various contests on grains, grasses,
vegetables and fruits, there will be
series of banquets, receptions and |
automobile tours. The banquet in |
lonor of the foreign delegates is
for the evening of October
I, and there will be banquet by
men to the delegates and
peakers on October 6, also several
fternoons and evenings at the Inter
tate fair.
The visiting newspapermen and
representatives of agricultural jour-
ais will be entertained at a mid
light smoker, automobile tours thea
Or parties, trips to the fair both af-
srnoon and evening, and an excur-
lon and game dinner at Hayden
axe, Idaho. The Spokane chamber
commerce will be host at the last
AIMED function, at which It is ex-
ected there will be $50 representa-
yes of the press. The trip to Hay
en- Lake will be made on special
ain, leaving Spokane early in the
'ternoon and returning before mid
ght.