Show READY FOR DRY FARMING SHOW groat great international congress will bo held in tulsa ENORMOUS CROWD EXPECTED farmers and farm scientists from many nations will take part in the proceed proceedings I 1 five big pavilions erected tulsa okla tho the eighth annual meeting of tile tho international dry farming fanning congress congram and ii exposition ft a worldwide world wide 0 organization with branch ollices lu ili nineteen nations Z wo 4 an and bombere in sixty will open horo here on october 22 anti ami tile the at ton danco dance Is expected to be very largo large tuna has been hustling to provide accommodations for the affair and la is do tag lug well forty acres of land aro are ready na its exposition W R motherwell grounds ground 9 and 80 90 acres more have been set act aside for farm machinery exhibits and demonstrations rive great buildings are under way one pavilion 80 by feet in size will be given up entirely to an exhibit on which the united states depart ment of agriculture Is spending 20 fifty counties of 0 oklahoma will show their products in on an oklahoma corn palace crop exhibits from seventeen eov enteen western states will be housed in a third building so 80 by feet while n fourth of the same size will hold specimens from three provinces of canada and a dozen foreign countries the new republic of china Is spending more than li flOO to send a collection of manchurian Manc hurlan crops to tulsa for this occasion while russia la Is doing as well on a great exhibit from all of its government dry farm experiment stations A fifth building will be given over ver entirely to a show of the manufactured manufacture ed crop of products of oklahoma dry farming which la Is merely merel y a method of holding rainfall in the soil for the use of growing crops and which thereby conquers periodical drought la Is a practical necessity over 63 per cent of the ear earths tits agri agrical cul tural surface As a the v vork nr k of the international dry farming congress extends through many notions and its annual sessions aro attended by delegates from many countries this year farmers and farm scientists are expected from argon argen tina australia austria hungary bel 1301 plum glum brazil chill china columbia costa alra cuba canada ecuador egypt france great britain germany india japan At mexico exico the netherlands er new zealand palestine paraguay persia peru russia spain south africa turkey uruguay Uru gny and venezuela the sessions of the congress proper w will ill last through five days from october 27 to 31 ten subjects will be made the basis of as aa many meetings and farmers and farm scientists will talk about soils sells tillage methods and machinery seeds and ceded breeding farm forestry live stock and dairying farm education for farmers children farm management and the baving of waste farm engineering scion research on farm subjects the modern agricultural college and the farm home the last named subject will bo be handled through the international Tn congress of farm women a branch organization which in itself brings out several thousand delegates annually and which has baa working sections in many foreign nations lion hon W R motherwell minister of agriculture for saskatchewan canada to is president of the international dry farming congress for 1013 1913 john T burns of tulsa Is the international secre secretary tary |