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Show EXPERTS ON DRY FARMING TO MEET International Congress Opens Late in October in City ot Tulsa, Okla. GREAT CROP SH3W PUNNED Many Natlona Will Be Represented by Eminent Scientists and by Fine Exhibits In the Ex- . position Buildings. Tulsa. Okla The eighth annual meeting of the International I r- Farming Congress taud Imposition, a world wide organization or-ganization with branch offices In nineteen nations and members to sixty, will open here on October 2E. and the at-tendance at-tendance la expected ex-pected to be very large. Tulsa bas been hustling to I provide accemmo- ycd datlons for the AJ; affair and Is do- ','. -J Forty crM ' f Jtf't'K,y&l land are ready i 1 M exposition John T. Burns, grounds, and 80 acres more have been set aside for farm machinery exhibits and demonst rations. Five great buildings are under way. One pavilion, 80 by 1U0 feet In slxe. will be given up entirely to an exhibit on which the United Stntee department depart-ment of agriculture Is spending $20. 000. Flrty rountlea of Oklahoma will show their products In an "Oklahoma Kafir corn palace." Crop exhibits from seventeen western statee will be housed In a third building 80 by 300 feet; while a fourth of the same alxe will hold a c linens from three provinces of Canadu and a dozen foreign for-eign countries. The new Kepubllc of China Is spending more than $10.0u0 to send a collection of Manchurlan crops to Tulsa for this occasion, while Itussla Is doing as well on a great exhibit from all or 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 is merely a method of holding rainfall In the soil for the use of growing crops and which thereby conquers periodical drought. Is a practical necessity over (3 per cent, of the earth's agricultural agricul-tural surface. As a result, the work of the International Dry-Farming congress extends through many nations na-tions and Its annual sessions are attended at-tended by delegatea from many countries. coun-tries. This year farmers and farm scientists are expected from Argentina, Argen-tina, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Del-glum, Del-glum, Iirastll, Chill. China, Columbia. Costa lllra, Cuba, Canada, Ecuador, Kgypt, France, Great Itrltain, Germany. Ger-many. India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands. Neth-erlands. New Zealand. Palestine, Para guay, Firsla, Peru, Russia, Spain. South Africa, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. The aesslons of the congress proper will last through five days, from October Oc-tober 27 to 31. Ten subjects will b made the basla of as many meetings and farmers and farm scientists will talk about soils, tillage methods and machinery, seeds and aeed breeding, farm forestry, live stock and dairying, dairy-ing, farm education for farmers' chil-I chil-I 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 borne. The last-named subject will be bandied through the International Interna-tional Congress of Farm Women, a branch organization which In Itself brings out several thousand delegates annually and which has working sections sec-tions In many foreign nations. Hon. W. It. Motherwell, minister of agriculture for Saskatchewan. Canada, Can-ada, Is president of the International Dry-Farming congress for 1913. John T. Burns of Tulsa Is the International secretary. |
