Show HOW HOlY DRY FARIN IN I Young Mens Literary Club o of Cheyenne Took up Work and Pushed It KNOW HOW TO TO ENTERTAIN Neighbors Will Start Now Says Say Carlisle Preparing for for- Congress in 1 1909 They know some something thins thins- about dr dry farming or farming or perhaps It were better t to call it tho the farming farning of semi-arid semi land land hans near Cheyenne where tho the third annual MIS Trans Tra o rt Dry ry Farming Fanning congress Is to tobe be held a and ld the story or- or orth th do of ot the industry In that statIs stat Is not without Interest It was as told b by byC C C. C C. C Carlisle city engIneer of Chey- Chey onne who was In Salt Lake Lako for th the close of ot the recent session Dr Dry lan Ian land farming got Its fleet first boost Joost a at atChO Cheyenne ChO from Crom an organization known know as the tho Young Young- Mm club That Tha name Is as much mucha a misnomer for th the club as dry ry farming is for tho the In industry I it designates The Youn Young Mens Men's Literary Literary Liter Liter- ary club according to Mr Ir t should hould more properly be called a Curr Current Cur Cur- I r runt rent nt Topics club It has a n membership I limited to 30 O. O and a waiting waiting- list so 50 Ion long long- that you ou have to have o your application In about two years ahead aliens of ot tho the time tim you get et Into the tile club body 1 That club became In some som I experiments that h had d been Lleen carried o oby on onby I ILly by Lly the state engineer eng in whose Mr 11 Carlisle was at that time timo engaged eng Through the efforts of tho the club th the tho dry land farming methods were ere given give givena a test with results that were astonishing astonishing astonishing astonish astonish- ing and the Industry was at once one boomed Inken Ur Ut lJ Oth Other Oilier r Later the movement was taken overl over ovo l 11 by the Che Cheyenne enne Commercial club T To help matters along that body Llody looked ed around for some somo one who had already nm made u a success of or dr dry land farming and found foun Its man In Dr V. V T. T Cook Coo Cook who tol told something o of his success I In Eastern Oregon at the tho congress In th this city just closed Dr Cooks Cook's work near nea Cheyenne was somewhat similar to that tha carried on by state experimental farms farm It C served as an 10 object lesson and th the result was that already tens of oC thou thou- thousands thousands sands of acres of land In the vicinity of or Cheyenne arc are devoted de to agriculture by dry farming methods that were once one deemed useless for anything anything- but th the graze of about one sheep to the acre for or a a. part of the tho year car carThe The In Industry has received an nn Immense Im Im- un- un mense meme impetus during the last four fou years or so said Mr Carlisle and an Cheyenne an and Wyoming will wUl be able t to show that It ft Is vitally Interested I In that class claS o f vork urk ork and to give Ive s some om Idea of wh what t it means to toU great West est |