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Show READY FOR DRY ' a FARMING SHOW Great International Congress Will Be Held in Tulsa. ENORMOUS CROWD EXPECTED Farmers and Farm Scientists From Many Nations Will Take Part In the Proceedings Five Big Pavilions Erected. Tulsa, Okla. The eighth annual meeting of the International Dry- , ; ,. .1 w arming uongress and Exposition, a world-wide organization or-ganization with branch offices in nineteen nations and members in sixty, will open here on October 22, and the attendance at-tendance is expected ex-pected to be very larpe. Tulsa has been hustling to provide accommodations accommo-dations for the affair and is doing do-ing well. Forty acres of land are ready aa ATnnittf Inn W. R. Motherwell, grounds, and 80 acres more have been set aside for farm machinery exhibits and demonstrations. Five great buildings are under way. One pavilion, 80 by 100 feet In size, will be given up entirely to an exhibit on which the United States department depart-ment of agriculture is spending $20,-000. $20,-000. Fifty counties of Oklahoma will show their products in an "Oklahoma Kafir corn palace." Crop exhibits from seventeen western states will be housed in a third building 80 by 300 feet; while a fourth of the same size will hold specimens from three provinces of Canada and a dozen foreign for-eign countries. The new Republic of China is spending more than $10,000 to send a collection of Manchurian crops to Tuisa for this occasion, while Russia is doing as well on a great exhibit from all of its government govern-ment dry-farm experiment stations. A fifth building will be given over entirely en-tirely to a show of the manufactured crop of products of Oklahoma. Dry-farming, which 's merely a method of holding rainfall in the soil for the use of growing crops and which thereby conquers periodical drought, is a praotical necessity over 0.5 per cent, oi tue . eartu a ; agricultural agricul-tural surface. As a result, the work of the Internatianal Dry-Farming congress extends through many nations na-tions and lis annual sessions are attended at-tended by delegates from many countries. coun-tries. This year farmers and farm scientists are expected from Argentina, Argen-tina, Australia. Austria-Hungary, Bel-glum, Bel-glum, Brazil, Chili, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Germany. Ger-many. India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Neth-erlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Paraguay, Para-guay, Persia, Peru, Russia, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. The sessions of the congress proper will last through five days, from October Oc-tober 27 to 31. Ten subjects will be made the basis of as many meetings and farmers and farm scientists will talk about soils, tillage methods and machinery, seeds and seed breeding, farm forestry, live stock and dalry- ing, farm education for farmers' children, chil-dren, farm management and the saving sav-ing of waste, farm engineering, scientific scien-tific research on farm subjects, the modern agricultural college and the farm home. The last-named subject will be handled through the International Interna-tional Congress of Farm Women, a branch organization which In Itself brings out sevoral thousand delegates annually and which has working sections sec-tions in maty foreign nations. Hon. W. R. Motherwell, minister of agriculture f6r Saskatchewan, Canada, Can-ada, Vs president of the International Dry-Farming congress for 1913. John T. Burns of Tulsa is the international secretary. |