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Show '.-! aud Simile! Fels of Philadelf hi, j L)vU Marshiili of New York, auU Judge Julian W. Mick o Chicago, directors. j TO BRING GRAIN FROM JERUSALEM. .. Dr. Aaron Aarousohu, managing director of the Jewiah Agricultural Experiment station at Haifa, Palestine, Pales-tine, his accepted an invitation of the Canadian board of control of the International In-ternational Dry-farming congress to attend the seventh congress at Leth-bridge, Leth-bridge, October 21-26 next, aud to make an address on the dry-farming development in Turkey. Dr. Aarousohn also informs the executive ex-ecutive secretary-treasurer, John T. Burns, by letter, that, he will bring a large exhibit of the different products grown under dry-farming methods in Ithe new experiment fields which are now being conducted. by the Jewish Jew-ish Agricultural society in and about J. uialem, Dr, Aaronsohn is one of the most famous agronomists and botanists of the old world. From time to time the agricultural papers ' of the old world have been eulishteniug the English-speaking world with the fact that iu the rehabilitation of the lauds noted for prehistoric farming, dry-farmiug has been playing an important im-portant pirt, andhe natives are lcok-ing lcok-ing upon it as a discovery of one of the lost arts which made ' Egypt the great granary centuries ago. Dr. Aaronsohn reports ti.nt the precipitation pre-cipitation in large portions of his country is less thau six inches annually, an-nually, aud that through conservation conserva-tion of moisture, deep plowing and scientific tilling the best wheat, barley and emmer have been raised, while the leguminous plants have been successfully grown. Dr. Aaronsohn represents in Palestine Pales-tine the Jewish Development League, which is officered by residents of the United States, including Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, president; Prof. Morris Leob of New York, treasurer ; Miss Henrietta Szold of New York, secretary ; Dr. Cyrus Ad- |
