American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-10-14
DRY FARM CONGRESS- LESSON
Livestock is the Great DrOwth Resister
Say All Authorities.

The Dry Farm Congress and Inter-
national Fa,n Products exposition
which closed at Denver last Sunday
was too big and too all comprehensive
to be described N arg article. In
succeeding issues of the Press an
attempt will be made to give the farm
ers and stockmen Of the county the
benefit of the lessons it taught. 1t Is
too bad that few Power county farm
ers were not in attendance to profit
from the lectures and the exhibits.
They are better fitted to get the bene-
fits, and to apply hem in a proctical
way, than anyone else. If F. X.
Meadows, Frank Kluck, Albert Bethke,
William Mcknight, w. F. Jasmann or
others like them could have attend
ed. the lessons learned would have
been of great and lasting benefit.
The one great lesson Of the con-
gress was that livestock is the great
drowth resister, and that stockgrow-
ing and dry farming are almost in
separable. The fullest success In
either line can not be obtained with
out combining 1t with the other.
The successful growing of wheat In
Australia, with only eight inches OF
precipitation, has a lesson for every
dry farmer in Idaho, and particular
ly pointed lesson for those who grew
spring wheat this year. With the same
careful preparation and methods
which 1t is necessary to use in Aus
tralia all the time, there would be
no such thing as a short crop in Idaho
at any time.
The delegate from johannesburg
South Africa, was equally instructive
His message was that there was very
little desert land in the United States
II proper methods of cultivation were
employed, and he has under considera'
ton the management Of 5000 acre
dry farm in Texas where the precipita'
ton is little more than half what we
have here, and doing so without the
slightest fear that ne will not NEE
with bountiful success.
Oregon showed peas and alfalfa
grown with twelve inches Of water
Texas showed prize winning exhibits
grown with water stored in November
last. with none since. In fact, tn
only water obtainable in that section
comes in November and must b.
stored in the soil for the use of plant
the following season. There were to-
many such examples to be noted her
at this time, but they will be taken VI
in future issues for the benefit OF tn
farmers of the county.
Dry farm products were forced U
compete with irrigated crops for tn
prizes, which probably has not bee
true of past expositions of this kino
They did SO successfully, however. an
with slight changes in the scorin
points, will render irrigated grains en-
tirely harmless in such supremac
tests.
The Power county grains attracte
much attention, and the small shea
grain exhibit, upon request OF Secre
tary Faxon, was left in Denver wher
II is part of a permanent exhibit l
the Masonic Temple there. With
little more careful preparation Powe
county would probably have brougf
home one blue ribbon and three re
ones instead of three reds and on
white. But the people OF the count
and especially the growers OF the grai
entered, Dan Lindauer, Albert Bethh
and William Mcknight, have eveI
reason to feel pride over the recogn
tiou won, because it was no amatel
show.
An important part OF the Pow
county display was the pictures fu
nished by A. NJ. Ley, photograph
They gave glimpses of our varied r
ali n