The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1913-09-12
WORLDS GREATEST
FARM EXPOSITION
INTERNATIONAL DRY FARMING
CONGRESS TO BE HELD AT
TULSA OCT. 22-NoV. /.
DELEGATES FROM ALL THE WORLD
Every Continent and Every Race TO
Meet and Discuss and Compare
Best Methods for Cultivat-
Inc Semi.Arid Regions

The worlds most important farm
convention for 1913 will be held IN
Tulsa Oklahoma, October % 70 NO
yember l. 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 ali regions OF
slight rainfall or occasional drouth
Official delegates are expected at
Tulsa from every continent on the
globe. China, whose farmers have
TILED 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. viii have
representatives in Tulsa 70 learn
even more OF the science which its
armors have practiced for $500
ears Persia. whose agriculture il
IS old as history. viii have al least
wo delegates. including the Mira
al KulI Khan. Palestine will send
.ts greatest agriculturist, Or Aaron
AaronsChn who today conducts
huge farm on land which the shop-
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 az
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 az Tulsa
will be held in nine sections begin
ming October o and lasting five days
The Exposition held in connection
with It will begin five days earlier.
on October 20. and will last unti'
November /. one sectional meeting
will be devoted entirely to talks about
soils, tlllage methods and farm ma
chinerv.
In other sectional meetings will be
studied the home breeding and selec.
ton OF seeds. live stock and dairyinc.
A''h anu AN'l - 'lbINs ldIfu lOItHlINs r.
the right Kind Of education for coun.
try boys and girls farm manage
rent and farm engineering.
The real purpose OF the Information.
al Dry-Farming Congress and OF its
meetings is 10 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 OF demonstration farms. II
merely collects from all possible
sources the available information
about methods whereby farmers NAV
increase their yields per acre. the
quality of their crops and their bank
accounts I'm all regions Of light or
irregular rainfall II then passes
this information on, through its an.
nual conventions and its publications
10 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.
ods 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 reyolu
tionizing agriculture. These farmer,
viii 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.