The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-08-17
DRY FARMING CONGRESS
To MEET At UVAlOE
The New Method of Farming VIII
BE Discussed by EXperts-Date
of Meeting Aug. 1920.

%, "a and 25th Inquiries from
widely separated sections of the
state indicate that the attendance
will be large, and Uvalde has made
preparations for five hundred visit
| ors.
| The fact that for two years what
are considered the best farming por-
tons of Texas have made practical
| failures of the corn crop because Of
dry weather. has led farmers outside
| of the so-called semi-arid belt to
seek information about methods OF
combating drouth that have been
| found successful under conditions
poorer than their own. There are
men on the program at Uvalde who
have demonstrated their ability to
| farm profitablv where the rainfall
is so light that ordinary methods re-
suit in general failure One of them
has made a moderate fortune farm
Ing on large scale in semi-arid
country. Such men have message
| that would be of great value to every
farmer in Texas, whether he lives in
| Texas, whether he lives in the rain
belt or not.
Ignorance of what is meant by the
term dry farming" is responsible
| for lack of interest in many who
conceive it to be some fake method
claimed to produce crops without
rainfall or irrigation. What the In
ternational Dry Farming Congress
and the Texas Dry Farming Congress
are trying to do is to accumulate the
experience of farmers in semi-arid
lands all over the world, and to
place this experience in shape so
that it will be available to any ami
everyone who casts his lot as far
mer in a land where the rainfall is
light, and to farmers anywhere dur
ing dry years. The principles of dry
farming have been applied profit
ably, even in irrigation, resulting III
increased crops and a saving in the
quantity of water used
One man farming in dry CHM
ate a number of years would gain
much wisdom as to adapted crops,
seed breeding and selection, prepar-
alton of the land, cultivation, etc.
But it is conceivable that number
of men in that same community. co
operating in their experiments,
could gain much greater wisdom,
and in fewer years, And it is still
more plausible that such groups of
men In many widely separated sec
tions and countries of the world
should be able to exchange expert
ences with great profit, indeed. That
is what takes place at these congress
SEES. Even our little Texas congress
has been attended by men from sc
distant country as Hungary, and
it's honorary president is Sr. Zeteri
no Dominguez of the Republic of
Mexico
Those who conclude that such
methods of gaining and promulgat-
ing information could result in
doctrine that crops can be raised
anywhere without moisture, either
from rain or irrigation, are OF YER
dure that would make sprig mead
ow look colorless But such methods
do show that some crops can be
profitably raised where none are
now grown, and that better crops
may be produced in many places
than the farmers are now reaping.
And because these investigations
have been made with the view of re-
sisting as far as possible conditions
in relatively dry lands, and dry years
| in other lands. and where it is i'm
practicable to irrigate the resulting
| system has been termed dry farm
| ing" The term is, in sense, mac
curate, but thus far no one has been
able to improve upon it without
using TOO many words for conyen-
| fence.
Uvaldes proposal to give her Wis
itors during the congress feast or
hot rolls, butter, honey, sweet milk,
| honey-metheglin, etc, seems to be
popular one with the people every
where, and Secretary Getzendaner of
the congress, has received many in
quiries about this feast and the bee
industry in the Uvalde country, etc
A second feature of the pro-
posed entertainment promises
to be even more popular still,
when the visitors are actually at
| Uvalde. At reception given by the
| ladies of the town on "Wednesday al
ternoon, the refreshments will be
| prepared and served by the young
| ladies of the Domestic Science De
partment of the Uvalde High school
| Uvalde was the second town In the
state to incorporate manual training
and domestic science in her hlgh
school curriculum and she now has
| $4,000 devoted to those two depart
ments. There are about forty young
| ladies in the domestic science work
and Secretary Getzendaner claims
| that in addition to being the pref
| test school girls to be found In the
state. they are by far the best cooks,
/ and that it will be well worth more
than anybody's expense Of coming
| to the Congress just to have these
girls serve him during this reception
| TO some of their own cooking. ANA