The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1913-10-04
WORLDS GREATEST
FARM EXPOSITION
INTERNATIONAL DRY FARMING
CONGRESS TO BE HELD AT
TULSA OCT. 22-Nov I.
DELEGATES FROM ALL THE WORLD
Every Continent and Every Race to
Meet and Discuss and Compare
Best Methods for Cultivat.
ing Semi-Arid Regions

The worlds most important farm
convention for 1913 will be held In
Tulsa, Oklahoma. october % to No
vember /. Men from thirty nations
will attend the eighth annual meet
ing Of the International DryFarming
Congress there and will tell about
methods of farming In all regions of
slight rainfall or occasional drouth.
Official delegates are expected at
Tulsa from every continent on the
globe. China. whose farmers have
titled the same lands for forty cen.
turies, will be officially represented
BY its minister of agriculture Chun
Sen Chan. Tunis, IN north Africa,
which has been dry-farming region
since the time Of Hasnibal, will have
representatives in Tulsa TO learn
even more of the science which It's
farmers have practiced for $500
years. Persia, whose agriculture Is
as old as history, will have at least
two delegates, including the Mira
An Kuli Khan. Palestine Will send
its greatest aerlculturist, DR.. Aaron
,Aaronsohn. who today conducts "a
huge farm on land which the shep-
herds used in the time Of Christ.
Fourteen governors of states and
scores of congressman have accepted
invitations TO be present. On top of
all these will be tens of thousands of
actual farmers who will come from
every state in the Union and from
every province In Canada to study
methods whereby they may Increase
the yields per acre on their own
farms.
The great farm meeting at Tulsa
will be held in nine sections, begin
, ming October % and lasting Ave days.
The Exposition held in connection
with II will begin Ave days earlier
on October %, and will last until
November l. One sectional meeting
will be devoted entirely to talks about
soils. tilage methods and farm ma
chinery.
In other sectional meetings will be
studied the home breeding and selec-
ton OF seeds, live stock and dairying,
feed and forage crops. farm forestry.
the right kind Of education for coun.
try boys and girls. farm manage
ment and farm engineering.
The real purpose of the Information.
al Dry.Farming Congress and of It's
meetings Is to teach methods for the
conquest OF drouth 1t has nothing to
! do with politics, colonization or re-
ligion. II is not an agricultural col
lege, neither does 1t conduct expert.
ment or demonstration farms II
merely collects from all possible
sources the available information
about methods whereby farmers may
increase their yields per acre. the
| quality of their crops and their bank
accounts In all regions of light or
| irregular rainfall. II then passes
this information on. through its an.
nual conventions and its publications.
to the farmers In many nations
Tho International Congress now
| has officers in nineteen nations and
members In sixty and its influence
for the development of farming meth
ods is worldwide. Its work is of
| especial importance through the
1 southwestern states. all OF which are
subject to occasional drouth which In
many seasons cuts the profits ont OF
farming. In even the driest years
however, thousands OF farmers are
making good through the practice OF
the new methods which are revolu
tionizing agriculture. These farmers
will be at Tulsa and will help in
making the Eighth Congress and FIX
position the most important meeting
| OF it's kind ever held on tho Amer
lean continent