Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-07-26
TEXAS DRY FARMING CONGRESS
ENDS INTERESTING SESSION AT
SABINAL, TEXAS.
uondo Will Be Next Meeting Place
Or. 3. r. Barley Elected rresr
dent-Editor Davis Speaks.

SabinaI. Tex.-The fifth annual SEES
sion of the Texas Dry Farming Con-
gross was formally closed THURSDAY.
Hondo was selected for the meeting
nlace next wear. Officers elected for
the ensuing year were: DR.. benjamin
F Barkley of Alpine, president; A. J.
Durham of Sabinal, vice president;
Fletcher Davis of Hondo, secretary.
resolution was adopted opposing
constitutional amendment 5. j. X. 10
After the business session the Wom-
ems Club of Sabinal gave a reception
at which an excellent musical selec-
ton was rendered. Good addresses
were made as follows: Conservation
Of the SOIL" Colonel Henry Exall,
president Texas Congress; Growing
Pecans in West Texas" II. w. Knox,
president Texas Farmers Congress.
The session just closed was I'M
doubtedly the most successful IN the
history of the congress.
The following speech in response 10
the address of welcome on behali Oh
! the press was delivered by Fletcher
Davis, publisher of the Hondo Anvil
] Herald:
We read in holy writ that after COO
had made man and placed him IN lhe
beautiful Garden of Eden, "A river
went out of Eden to water the gar
den." Genesis 2:10)
interpret this to mean that mar
in his first purity, fresh from the lane
of his Divine Greater, was an lrrlga
zionist.
blame no man for wanting to b
an irrigationist now.
hope to live to see every mountain
gorge in this section damned so ina
the storm waters may be impounde'
and a river made to go out OF the res
eryoir to water the myriads OF gar
dens in the broad, rich valleys below
The work has already been pegu'
by men of broad vision who can Sc
the possibilities of a mighty success
looming large upon the horizon OF tn
future.
And if the hopes and the moral an
material support of the press ca
hasten the dawning OF that grea
time it will not be long in coming.
But. be the possibilities of irrigatio
what they may, so long as man mus
eat bread by the sweat of his face IN
vast majority of mankind must live
: dry-farming and dry-farming method
5 1t is this fact that lends interest an
: importance to the great work OF th
Texas Dry Farming Congress and XII
: dred organizations.
The gathering of data and the e
, change of ideas and experiences gal
q ed in a study of methods of plant 5
. lection, seed preservation, cultur
methods, soil analysis and the tho
sands of other things connected VII
fl scientific agriculture-not to menue
that matter of transcendent impo
lance. the conservation OF moisture
n which we have at such meetings
this. is the little leaven that shi
leayen the whole lump Of agricultur
development that shall one day trar
e form present day methods of farmil
ID and make all the desert places OF
u land blossom as the rose.
lie 1t is then that the rivers that cor
a, out of Gods Eden of love among t
y. clouds shall be found sufficient, WI
mans conservation thereof, to wal
~ all of this fair earth and once aga
transform 1t into a paradise for
a abode of man!
In the realization of this dream
press has a glorious and useful N
sion to perform.
LII 1t is not alone the mission OF
press to consume the farmers surp
Ill tomatoes and cabbage-although II
are never refused but are thankfu
he received when rendered on subscI
ci- tion-but it is the more glorious n
at sion of the press to carry to the mu
St tudes that can not join In your asst
no blies the message of what you
he here