The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-03
THIRTY COUN7R| S
ARE REoRESENT[D
At Farming Congress Which
Will Be Held at Tulsa
in October.
(National News Association.


TULSA, Okla, Sept. 3.-Men from
thirty nations of the world will meet
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in October of this
year, to talk about farming. Exhibits
of good crops from twenty states and
a dozen countries will be shown at
the same time and place at the eighth
annual session of the International
Dry-Farming Congress, a worldwide
organization for better farming which
has branch offices in nineteen nations
and members in sixty.
Delegates already appointed insure
for Tulsa the largest international
representation which has ever been
seen in an agricultural convention in
America Along with the foreigners
will come at least fourteen governors
of states. scores of congressman and
tens of thousands of real farmers who
will visit Tulsa to study methods
whereby they may increase the yield
per acre of their own farms.
In the exposition to be held in con-
nection with the eighth Congress,
Chinese farmers will compete with
those of the United States for world S
prizes on cotton, corn, kafir corn, mi
10 maize, millet, wheat, rye and bar
ley. Wheat from Russia and Australia
and Argentina will compete with the
wheat of Canada and the United
States. Cotton from California will
come into competition with cotton
from Oklahoma and Texas. Corn from
Mexico will compete with corn from
Missouri and Kansas. Oats from Sas-
katchewan, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah,
Nevada and New Mexico will contest
for supremacy with oats grown in Ok
lahoma, Kansas, Russia and Australia.
Six great buildings with more than
100000 square feet of floor space will
be devoted entirely to crops grown il
regions of small rainfall where dry
farming is practiced. Eighty acres
of land will be used for a complete
farm machine show and tillage and
power demonstration.
Dry-farming, so-called, is said by
farm scientists to be merely better
farming. 1t was once supposed to ap-
ply only to those districts which get
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ly. In recent years it has been demon
strated that it's principles are as vital
in regions of frequent or occasional
drouth, no matter what the rainfall
as in districts which are known as
semi-arid. Dry farming as now known
is merely system of soil tillage
whereby farmers may reduce evapo-
rot nd hliSh oo
reservoir in the soil which will hold
the rainfall until they are ready to
use it.
A remarkable illustration of this
was given at the government expert
ment farm in Lichtenburg, South AT
RIGA, in 1912, where II bushels OF
wheat per acre were grown under a
registered rainfall of one-half an inch
between planting time and harvest.
Dry-farming is today attracting the
attention of the entire world. Sixty
per cent of the earth's agricultural
surface gets less than 20 inches OF
rainfall annually, and it is generally
considered that any system of sol
cultivation which will permit the
growth of good crops under such con
ditions demands the attention of every
agricultural country. 1T is because o,
this fact that delegates from thirty OIL
more nations, covering every cont
nent on the globe, will meet in Tulsa
from October % TO November 1 tc
study the proposed methods for the
conquest of drouth throughout the
world.