The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-06-29
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL
DRY-FARMING CONGRESS
10 be Held at Colorado Springs Monday October 16t
International Congress of Farm Women Meets at Same
Time and Place.

The Sixth International Dry5Farm-
ing Congress will be conference of
1armerS, scientists, state and federal
experts, land owners aid others in
tereSted in agricultural development,
representing every nation within
whose borders the precip tation dnps
below the net annual aven.lge raf 20
inches.
The International Congress of Farm
Women ist capitalization of the
growing feeling that NOW is the time
to, begin lmpr-Wing co4I5itions in the
home of the farmer, and to establish
higher ideals in rural communities.
This farm women s. Congress is called
as an auxiliary Tia the Dry-Farming
Congress, by ealthority of the Bcard
of Governors of the Dry-Farmfrg Con.
gress acting jointly with the Colorado
Bkard of Control
All pers- ms cr societies desiring to,
advance the cause of better homes up
on the tarms are urged to address
che secretary Nf the Womrn's G.m-
gress, P. O.. Box 1898, Colorado
Springs, Col-r-do, for information.
All persons interested in this pro-
posed work and all leaders in edluca-
tiomal movements for men aLN wo-
men are invited to leI ,'cip2te
The International Exposition of dry
farmed products is held fir the pur-
pose of showing in direct competi-
tion, every form of product from the
semttarid unirrigated Kinds ef the
world. This is the fourth exposition
pf its kinld. The exposition ha,Nd last
October i'm connection with the Fifth
Dry Farming Congress was a .loIta Bile
feature of that gathering Canada,
Australia, Turkey, several American
sdates, and the Federal Department I
Agriculture, participated.
All nations, all states where dry
: farming is practiced, all agricultural
colleges, the Federal Departm mt bf
Agriculture End all farmers of every
nation, operating under dry-farmimg
cQIdltions are invited to particip tie
In the Colorado Springs Exposition.
Dry-farming is the most interesting
and important m.Nement in the world
Years of testing by various meth
ODDS and systems hive shown tha.
drouuh is practically overcome where
farmers select seed AID carefully util.
ize proper metht ds of tillage
Tho Drv. n o.,,, ,,nr C<x,pr,a,o =:
ucational and scientific society, par
tnu1lly devoting its time ito re-
search amid organization, and uns elfisb
ly carrying forward the genen. il prop-
agae ida OF Intelligent farming. 1t has
members in practically every civiliz-
ed d.mntry. The publications of the
Congr ss c,st 81 per year and can
be Sc secured Dy so1.Gng money cr-
der for that amount direct to John T.
Burns Secret ry Treasurer of the C,cm-
gress, Box 1898, Colorado Springs.
Sixty-three per cent cf the remain
ing unoccupied arabic acreage of the
world must, if titled 1t all, be placed
unider dry-iarming methods, ,and this
fact gives the dry-farmimy problem
vast hum-n interest from both the fin
ancial aud social standpf ints.
Dry-farming is BETTER farming''in
every sense of the expression, end
conclusively it has been shown that
the very N athods advocated by this
Congress for solving the problems in
Seml-arid nartS Of tho world o1-,o ,,-;1l
serve t1i protect against drought III
ithe si0rcall d ''ra n,1belt'' states. At
the convention this evidence will De
presented and discussed by leading
scientists.
So impkrtant is this Congress to