Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-12
ARIZONA INTERESTED IN
 DRY FARMING CONGRESS.

DRY fRhMiNS SONSNCoo-
 There is no other state in the union where there should be greater inter est in the approaching annual meet ing of the International Dry Forming congress than in Arizona. This con gress will be held at Tulsa. Oklahoma, the last week in October.
 Arizona has many thousands of fer tile land that would rival any in tho world if there was sufficient moisture to mature crops This land is rapidly being taken by homeseekers and those settlers are intensely interested in ali that science has revealed in the mat ter of conserving moisture and prep aration of soil for retaining moisture after 1t receives it and until it con tributes it's important share in the pro duction of crops.
 III EIAlkE Pe+l Nc OA -AAaLSAtA SCA1ANSA able experimenting has already been done in applying the dry farming methods to the growing of crops and there are instances or good success having been attained; notably on the higher lands of northern Arizona and in the foothills of the mountains in the southern part of the state.
 Dry farming methods when followed will result in such preparation of the soil as will cause it to retain moisture for the maximum length of time and these methods if not sufficient to bring maturity for crops will help ma terially in this effort, thus lessening the expense of pump irrigation and the more Arizona farmers learn O fthese methods and how to apply them here the better it will be for the farmers of the state.
 The Review is in receipt of some in- formation sent out from the headquar- ters of the dry farming congress, now located at Tulsa, concerning the scope of the plans perfected for the congress and the following extract is here given for the benefit of the Review readers: The worlds most important farm convention for 1913 will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, October g to No vember l. Men from thirty nations will attend the eighth annual meeting of the International Dry-Farming con gress there and will tell about meth ods of farming in all regions of slight rainfall or occasional drouth.
 Official delegates are expected a Tulsa from every continent on tn globe. China whose farmers bav tiled the same lands for forty centu ries, will be officially represented b, its minister of agriculture, Chun Se' Chan. Tunis, in north Africa, whiel has been a dry-fsrming region sine the time of Hannibal, will have repre- sentatives in Tulsa to learn even nor of the science which it's farmers hay practiced for 2.5O0 years. Persi' whose agriculture is as old as histor will have at least two delegates, il ciuding the Mirza All KulI Khan. Pa estine will send it's greatest agricu turist, pr. Aaron Aaronsohn, who toda conducts a huge farm on land whic the shepherds used in the time ( Christ
 Fourteen governors of states ar scores Of congressman have accepts invitations to be present. On top { all these win be tens of thousands actual farmers who will come fro every state in the Union and fro every province in Canada to stu' methods whereby they may increa the yields per acre on their ov
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 The great farm meeting at Tui will be held in nine sections, begi ming october 27 and lasting five ds! The Exposition held in connecti with it will begin five days earii rn October 22. and win last un