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Show o CANADA GETS DRY FARMING CONGRESS lethbrldge Selected for 1912, Salt Lake Withdrawing on Pledge of ' Support for 1913. - 1 1 Colorado Si zings, .Oct 19. Leth-UildK, Leth-UildK, Alhcita, Canada, was tonight "olcoted as the 1912 meeting place lor tho Intcruntlbual Dry Farming cengiess. Salt LhKu City wlthdiow when the Canadians pledged their suppoit for that place In 1913. Tonight Delegate Hermnn Lleden frost of Hungary, lnvltod tho Congress Con-gress to Uudnpest In 1913, and the foreign delegates, with the exceptions of tho Canadians, decided at a caucus to attend the Lothbrldgo convention next year for tho express purpose of capturing the 1913 meeting for Budapest, Buda-pest, Resolutions adopted favor county nnd dlsttlct fnrmeis' aid bureaus, thuiugh stute agilcutttiral -colleges Instend or government oxperts located locat-ed In evety county; pledges the con-giess con-giess to the oxtenslon or the reclnnui Hon or tho mid and semi-arid mens of all nntlons; "urge tho establishment or a Jl.odO.OOO endowment fund: urge the national Congress to tnko such action as will bring nbout nn early survey of the unsurvejed portions of the public domain nnd mlse appropriations appropria-tions for the work nnd condemn Ir-tcsponslble Ir-tcsponslble land locntors under " the homestead net. and recommend stntc legislatures to enact laws which will pioteet the homesteaders. P. V, Cardon, superintendent of government substation nt Ncphl, Utah spoke of "The Commercial Value of Dry Farmed Wheat In Utnh." He pointed out tho likeness between conditions con-ditions in the Orent IJnsin nnd thofo In many parts of Kuropo, Asia, Aft!-ca Aft!-ca and South Americn, nnd auggestcJ thnt crops nnd crop methods valuable In one district will be especially adapted ad-apted to the others. "It has been found," ho said, "that the hard red wheats which bilng tho highest prices to the farmer, ure es-pcclully es-pcclully adapted to the soils and climatic cli-matic conditions of Utah and the Client IJaaln. They have. In a series of years, yielded better than tiny of the older, sorter and poorer varieties iif thnt section. It has boon found, also, al-so, that theso harder winter wheats arc of superior milling and baking qualities. Those two factors combined with that of Miperlor yield make tho hcider wheats, especially Turkej-, the best all around wheat and hence the most profitable one for which, as hns been shown, Is quite typical or many other parts of the world." l'ror. Parrell tiald that the Idet ad winced by many dry farming authors, that the more cultivation tho soil Is given the better, frequently leads tc undesirable extremes. In clay or lava ash soils a dust mulch quickly runs together when wet and Induces a heavy loss of tho falling rain by run-njng run-njng ofr. Itnlso lends to heavy crusting crust-ing after tains. On 'heavy soils, tho speaker Insisted, tho dust mulch Is not desired, but rather thnt tho sur-; face soil should be kept lelatlvely toar&o and lumpy, Ho lecommended tho ordinal' splko harrow as tho best farm Implement Imple-ment for tho purpose, even In eadl-eating eadl-eating weeds If thoy aro ntUickedJusi iir thoy begin to nppoar nbovo tho ground In grent numhois. Mulching operations should ho shallow, and should bo directed ns much toward, ebborbtng tho rainfall as to holding 11 nftervvard. 1 |