Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-10-23 | Page 14 | Merrill Back from Dry-Farm Congress

MERRILL BACK FROM DRY-FARM CONGRESS Utah Delegate Declares Exposition to Have Been Best He Ever Attended. Professor Lewis A. Merrill, agricultural agricul-tural expert for the Salt Lake Bouto, returned yesterday from Wichita, Kan., where he attended the International Dry Farm congress as one of the three delegates from Utah. The exposition, Mr. Merrill declares, was the most complete ever assembled in this country. Lvery county in Kansas Kan-sas contributed its individual, display and the government's exhibit alone represented rep-resented an expenditure of 5-20,00-1). All of the exhibits demonstrated how the state, by scientific farming, has overcome over-come the winds and the brought and has made Kansas one of the greatest grain-producing states in the Union. The convention gave Utah the honor and credit of being the pioneer dry-farming dry-farming as well as the pioneer irrigating irrigat-ing state, and the closest attention was given to all statements concerning the development of the dry farm idea in Utah. Professor Merrill delivered three addresses ad-dresses during the convention and was honored by being elected vice president presi-dent of the organization for the ensuing en-suing year. The other Utah delegates to the congress were Dr. Robert Stewart Stew-art of Logan and J. F. Compton of Tremonton. After the close of the convention Professor Merrill went to St. Louis to attend a meeting of botanists held in commemoration of the anniversary of the founding of the Shaw Botanical gardens. He then went to Chicago and studied the livestock situation at the stockyards.