The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1913-09-19
WORLDS GREATEST
FARM EXPOSITION
wv IRRATIONAL DRY FARMING
CONGRESS TO eE Held AT
TULSA OCT. 22.NoV. T.
DELEGATES FROM ALL THE WORLD
every Continent and Every Race to
mcct and Discuss and Compare
Gss- Methods for cutvat.
ing sentArd Regions

The worlds moo important farm
convention for 1918 Will b. held ia
Tulst Oklahoma. October 22 to No.
Vembpr J. Men from thirty nations
VIII attend the eighth annual meet.
Ing a. the International Dry.Farming
Conrrcss there and will tell about
metl.ds Of farming in an regions OF
sIieh' rainfall or occasional drouth.
Official delegates are expected at
Tuls from every continent on the
slob China. whose farmers have
/ TILED the same lands for forty cen.
/ uri,s. Ni!l be officially represented
by its minister Of agriculture. Chun
Sen tA.n. Tunis, In north Africa
whicl has boon p dry-farming rori u
| since 'he iiwe of HaNibal will have
Representatives in Tulsa to learn
even mere Of the science which its
farmers have praciiccd for $3.50
year.. Persia, whose agriculture is
as OLD as history, win have 1t least
two d. 'crWes, including the Mira
All Kuli Khan Palestine will send
its greatest 1sriculturist. Dr. Aaron
Aaronsohn. who today conducts
huge farm on land which the shcp.
herds used in the time Of Christ.
Fourteen governors Of states and
score cf coulras men have accepted
invitations 10 bc present on top OF
all these win bo tens Of thousands of
actual farmers who will come from
every state in the Union and from
every province ia Canada to Study
methods whereby they may increase
the yields per acre on thcir own
farms.
Tho preat farm meeting at Tulsa
Will be held in nine sections, begin
ming October q and lasting five days.
The Exposition held in connection
with it will begin five days earlier.
on October %, and will last until
November l. ono sectional meeting
will be devoted entirely to talks about
soils, tillaee methods and farm ma
chinery.
In other sectional meetings will be
studied thc home breeding and selec.
tion 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-F2rming Congress and OF its
meetings is to teach methods for the
conquest Of drOuth, II has nothing to
do with politics, colonization or re.
ligion. II is not an agricultural col
lege neither does II 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 al regions of light or
Irregular rainfall II then passes
this information on, through its an.
nual conventions and its publications.
to tho 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. !
DDS is Worldwide Its work is of |
especial importance through the /
states, all of which are |
subject to occasional drouth which in /
many seasons cuts the profits out Of !
farming. In even the driest years
however, thousands of farmers are .
making good through the practice of
the new methods which are revoln
tionizing agriculture These farmers
will be at Tulsa and will help in
making the Eighth Congress and Ex.
position the most important meeting
Of its kind ever held on the Amer.
lean continent.