The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-22
 MEETINGS FOR
 FL PAS0, TEX.
Three Important Conven
 tions Will Be Held in Southern City.

Fl Paso. Texas. Sept 21.+Three important events of an international character that will have a direct and lasting influence on the agriculture of the United States will be held here from October 14to 29, inclusive. They are: The International Irrigation Con- gress, the International Farm Con- gross and the International Soil Pro- ducts Exposition, which lasts until October 24.
 In connection with these meetings there will be the dedication on Octo- Der 14 by President Wilson of the great Elephant Butte Dam. zone of the greatest irrigation structures and pro- jects in the world. Immediately af- ter these ceremonies, which are to take place at the dam, President Will son comes to Fl Paso where he prob- ably will speak at the congress that night
 This will be the twenty-third an- nual meeting of the International IT, rigation Congress and it will be the second time that it has met here. The tentative program begins with the dedication of the Elephant Butte Dam. The congress has before it for discussion many important subjects re- garding irrigation in both the United
 States and Mexico. It is probable that one of the meetings will be held across the International Border at Juarez, Mexico.
 All of the foreign countries have been invited to send delegates, but ow- ing to disturbed. conditions in Europe it is not believed likely that many delegates from there will participate. From other countries, especially the western hemisphere, usually large del- egations takel part in the meetings and 1t is believed that this years congress will not prove an exception.
 In it's discussions the congress will give much attention to irrigation dis tricts practices, legislation and engin- eering. Two of the important ques- tions, planned to be discussed, are Ru- ral Credits and Markets and Market ing. The Rural Credits discussions are regarded of special importance in view of the recent passage of the Fed efal Farm Loan Bank Act and the present efforts of the Farm Loan Board in distributing the country and establishing the proposed farm loan banks.
 'The work of the Irrigation Con- gress," says Arthur Hooker, secre- tary, with respect to colonization and land settlement, irrigation methods and results, and irrigation finances, is to be continued and broadened at the sEl Paso meetings. The real aim of the congress is well expressed in its motto: Make Easy the Path of the Home Builder"
 Besides President Wilson, many prominent men, leaders in the agri- cultural and irrigation extension movement, are to take part in the congress. Among them probably will be the following:
 Franklin P. Lane, Secretary of the Interior; David F. Houston, Secre- tary of Agriculture; w. R. Mother well, Minister of Agriculture of Cana da; Geo. P. Hunt, Governor of Ari- zona; Hiram U. Johnson, Governor of California; Geo. A. Carlson. Governor of Colorado; E. M. Ammons, ex-gov- ernor of Colorado; Moses Alexander, Governor of Idaho; Arthur Capper, governor of Kansas; s. o. V. Stewart, governor of Montana; William c. Me- Donald, governor of New Mexico; R.. s. Williams, governor of Oklahoma;