Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-09-25
WORLDS GREATEST
FARM EXPOSITION.
INTERNATIONAL DRY FARMING
CONGRESS TIC. BE HELD AT
TULsA2ocT. a2-NoN. T.
DELEGATES FROM ALL TIVE WORLD
Every Sentiment and Every Race to
Meet and Discuss and Compare
Best Methods for cUltiVat-
ING senI-ArId Regions

The worlds most important farm
convention for 1918 will be held in
Tulsa Oklahoma, October % to No
| vember /. Men from thirty nations
will attend the eighth annual meet
ing of the International Dry-Farming
Congress there and will tell about
methods of farming in all regions OF
slight rainfall or occasional droutn
Official delegates are expected at
Tulsa from every continent on the
globe. China, whose farmers have
titled the same lands for forty cen
turtles, will be officially represented
by its minister of agriculture, Chun
Sen Chan. Tunis, In north Africa
which has been a dry-farming region
since the time of Hannibal, will have
representatives in Tulsa to learn
even more of the science which its
farmers have practiced for 1000
years. Persia. whose agriculture is
as old as history, will have at least
two delegates, including the Mira
Ali Kuli Khan Palestine will send
its greatest agriculturist, 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 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. One sectional meeting
WILDE devoted entirely to talks about
Soils tillage methods and farm ma
nhinery.
In other sectional meetings will be
studied the home breeding and selec-
tion of seeds. live stock and darying,
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 its
meetings is to teach methods for the
conquest of drouth. 1t has nothing to
do with politics, colonization or re-
ligion 1t is not an agricultural col
lege, neither does it 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.
The 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
southwestern 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 revolu-
tionizing agriculture. These farmers
will be at Tulsa and will help in
making the Eighth Congress and Elk
position the most important meeting
Of its kind ever held on the Amer
lean continent.