El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-08-18

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plant just before the season of the
average heaviest rainfall.
A Practical Florist.
| Farm Mana cement in Dry Land
Regions" a subject assigned to profess
sOr B. YoungbIood, OF the U. S. de-
partment of agriculture at oklahoma
City, was treated at length by this
| young man who is a graduate of the
Texas A. & NJ. college and has been
in the government service for a number
of years. He told the farmers what
| they ought to have before starting
out for new region. and then told
4, them how to manage things after they
! got there While the professor is one
! Of the theorists he is also one of the
, real workers, as he followed the pillow
! done some blowing since his gradu-
alton, SO that he is not wholly the
J orist.
! Prof. Youngblood's demonstrations
show that it takes seven inches or
more of rain TO produce a given crop
at Amarillo. Tex, than at Billings,
/ Mont This is due to the climate con-
! ditions, he declared. In Montana. he
/ said. land with a "a inch rainfall is
worth very little. The winds are higher
! in Texas and the altitude Is also high
| er, he said, and this makes the problem
a much harder one in this region than
elseW here.
Several practical dry farmers follow
ed with talks. They include j. c.
Damron, of Wilson county; l.. H.
Hawker. Maverick county; T. Y. Har-
din, Wilson cunty, and T. J. Martin of
Kinney county
Warmly Welcomed.
The convention got a warm welcome
on behalf of the citizens of Eagle Pass
last night, when it opened. Hon. john
r Sanford, president of the Eagle Pass
Commercial league. delivered the adj
dress and told the delegates all about
the city and surroundings and babe
them help themselves to anything they
wanted and even promised to give them
homes in Eagle Pass if they spent all
their money or went broke" while
across the river
The response was by DR.. Benjamin F
Berkeley, of Alpine, one of the vice
presidents of the congress and an active
member in its organization at Alpine a
year ago.
Professor S. H. Haskings, in charge
Of the agricultural experiment farm Of
the United States department of agri-
culture at San Antonio will speak Fri
day night on the real subject of the
onvention-''Cultivatio of the Soil to
Conserve Moisture" He will tell the
delegates how best to mulch the soil to
keep the moisture down where it will |
do the most good for the roots of the |
plants and will give them much valuable |
advice.
Every man present has already i'm
bibed enough enthusiasm to keep him |
in his seat throughout the sessions Of I
the congress, regardless of the tenn
perature, which is not anything like |
Dr. Cook found it when the world got |
onto his bunco game
HOspitabEe People.
The people of Eagle Pass have thrown |
open their houses to the reception of /
the delegates and almost every private !
family is entertaining from one to
three delegates to the congress. The |
program of entertainment is also 4
splendid one and is going to keep the |
delegates moving every minute that |
they are not busy in convention. All
delegates are met in autos at the trains
as they arrive and are taken to the |
commercial club and registered and
then whisked away to their stopping !
places. Every automobile in the city
has been turned over for the use of the |
entertainment committee, headed by |
district judge ". G. Douglas, the vice
president of the congress. and Jos. o.
Boehmer, secretary of the congress, for
use in entertaining the delegates.
Big Attendance.
AT the opening session of the con-
gress last night, the annual report and
address of the president. the appoint
ment of committees, and the address of
welcome and response took up the
evening The attendance was tremend-
Gus, delegates and home people alike
crowding the meeting place for the
opening session.
Presidents Address
After urging the convention to take
steps to affiliate with the Interna-
tional Dry Farm congress in order to
better disseminate information among
the members of the Texas congress,
suggesting that a membership fee be
fixed for the Texas congress to defray |
the expenses of issuing bulletins on |
results accomplished in the state. and
referring TO the fact that Dry Farm
ing" was really a misnomer as applied
70 the science of farming, the president
said:
Effort has often been made to
change the name of the work and also
the great international congress that is
helping to carry il. on, but the original
name has remained. The very term
dry farming has brought many a
sneer and in other cases it has
caused people to expect too much of it,
Nobody can farm without moisture. but
some people when you talk dry farm
ing to them, have an idea that they can
plant mustard seed in a cement side
walk. after the magic words dry farm
ing over it and seen be picking lilies of
the valley and watermelOns. Dry farm
ing merely means common sense farm
ing. If we really called it that, 1 be-
lieve it would be the best name We
could give it, Dry farming does not
mean anything more nor less than
using sense in cultivation of crops; it
means more brains nd less water for
a corn patch or a cotton row; it means
your land so as to get the
best results from the least amount of
precipitation.
Good For Any Land
Dry farming is a splendid prOpo-
sition for land in any region: there is Z
not a section in Texas that would not
profit if the principles Of dry farm
ng were followed Dry farming will i'm
prove conditions in any community.