Show ath DRY PARKING FARMING CONGRESS the fourth dry farming congress will meet at billings I 1 mont october 26 G 27 and 28 1909 the I 1 international exposition of dry farm products will be held during congress week at billings thirteen w western estern states arid and territories two ca canadian nadian provinces mexico and russia will send exhibits seventeen states and ten foreign countries will have delegates at this congress in the west acres of rable arable a land awaits by dry farming methods texas has 50 montana colorado arid and wyoming new mexico oklahoma utah idaho and arizona over ao experts estimate that in ill ten sears every drop of water available for ir will be utilized for foi every acie irrigated there will be 50 acres of dry farm land when irrigation possibilities ties are exhausted experience shows that tion non land yields crops averaging 50 per cent tile the quantity leaped under irrigation to this land the future must come in 1900 diy daiy farm land in the west averaged 50 tents cents to an acre increased valuation where dry farming has been demonstrated shows that within ten years this acres will be b held at 10 10 to 50 an acre dry farming arming I means an increase in western land values at a conservative estimate ot of approximately five billion dollars the dry farming congress teaches farmers how to conserve moisture by intelligent cultivation educates them in soil culture and seed selection and guides inexperienced settlers in methods that bring them their share of the harvest profit it extends the limit of producing area to the limit of acreage in 1 arid and semiarid regions and etoie is the keystone upon which the he future prosperity ot of the great west is estaba established ish |