Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-02-19
DRY FARMING CONGRESS
To Be HELD At TULSA


Eighth international Dry.FaT ming
congress will be held at Tulsa. Ok
lahoma during the last ten days OF
October Of this year This state
ment. translated. means that Tulsa
will Dee the center OF the agricultural
world during 1913. says John T.
Burns. In the Interstate Farmer.
for the international Dry-Farming
congress Is today the largest and
most important organization known
for the spread OF better farming
method OF agriculture e districts
OF very small rainfall. and IL has
puzzled them 20 know Why the lu-
ternational Dry Farming congress
should hold convention in "a region
whose annual rainfall s close 10
forty Inches Mr Burns who ls
secretary-trcasuref OF the congress,
explains this in very clear fashion.
Ne says that dry-farming which is
hyphcnated word. is al much an
agricultural system a. b. irrigation,
and means al much 600 yields 20 3D."
farmer who takes advantage of f7
methods D. means deep pioRIH-
and surface cultivation to save The
moisture N means The planting pf
seeds which are accustomed tO thr
climate in which thsv are expected
10 grow ~ means lhe selection OF
crops anI the rciurn of manure TO
the land 20 maintain pH fertility
II has bccu found says Mr.
Burns. that evaporation figures
largely 10 the crop production OF
every district and chat therefore.
many regions OF ycfl ..Uy rainfall
need dry-farminr Methods Ih"
April to scptemlor Inclusive is
thirty inches OF water iu Montana
and North Dakota Ia the southern
and Southwestern states during the
same period 8. Is from forty to
forts five inches. the latter figure
includlns nearly all OF Oklahoma
and Texas
II Is also known that 10 requires
twenty one inches of annual rain
fall 10 grow the same native grass
IS In Texas and Oklahoma that are
produced iu Colorado on seventeen
inches aud fourteen In Montana In
other words. seven inches more
rainfall E needed IN Oklahoma, Tor
instance. 10 produce a profitable
crop than o. takes Zoo Montana.
merely because under ordinary con
ditions 90 much more of the vital
crop element is lost through cyap-
Grafton Comparing the twenty or
twenty five inches of added cyapor-
alton With the seven Inches of need
ed rain 10 is also evident that any
district having an cyaroratlOn oi
three inches greater than another
district. will need an additional inch
of rainfall during the growing sea
son 10 produce crops of equal
quanllty and quality 10 is further
evident that the southern rainfall
Of thirty inches. hair of which
comes iu the croNinb season. is OF
no more value for the production OF
crops. unless the additional rainfall
~ conserved through proper tillaH"
methods. than is rainfall OF siN
teen inches In North Dakota, hait
~ which also falls within the lrow-
Ing season
Il rs safe 20 say. Mr Burns con-
c,udos that the southern farmer Who
does not cultivate 20 hold his mo,s-
turr loses az least half of % by oyap
Grafton during the growing season
This loss may readily De- checked
from rfty 90 scycuty-'iNc per cent
through ullar, methods as taught
hy the dry-armIuE methods will add
from one Go tNo and ouc-halt bush
els OF wheat 20 the acre. and other
crops Ia proportion.
Increased Yields Per Acre is
The slogan OF the international Dry
Farming congress. aud to accom-
plish this object. 5, is working all
the gear through it, monthly mag
arincs. It's editorial department it-
field men. los taIipu, sections OBJ
soil culture. scientific research,
farm management. agricultural en-
ginetr,ag. ,',. ON Nh, question of
better farming 'or tle nations
nry farming b. today a world prob
lem effeetinr vitality sINtF-ihr''
per cent of che ,arth's suriac"
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