| Show give dry farming a boost do you want to do a great service to your immediate community to fco yourself individually and the cause of bringing the dry lands under cultivation we take it that you do and we are thus addressing you in the hope that you will immediately take steps to assist in providing an exhibit at the exposition of the international dry farming congress that is to be held at colorado springs october 16 to 1911 the committee ll 11 has s evry every ev ry reason to believe that this will surpass any agricultural display ever held in the western country we want the products of your farms orchards and gardens that have been raised under dry farming conditions shown there dont be too ambitious in the matter and v think that you have to go to a great expense pe ilse get together and 81 show low the world what your section is capable of producing under tinder right conditions and the right kind of farming you owe it to yourself and your community coin nullity to do this but if you are going to undertake an exhibit now is theotime the time to begin A successful exhibit is the result of studied des design agn and careful collecting if not lot too late plant special plats of land and care fully attend them lay aside in ill cool dark places grains and fruits that ripen or otherwise treat the products in the best way to preserve pr oserve them if in doubt on matters of this kind write to the secretary of the congress you will be surprised how fast your collection grows start yours and dont be afraid to try it out at state and county fairs before coming with it to the exposition business men and especially county commissioners you have a bi big stake in this thing you can encourage growers of your region to get together and undertake the collection of exhibits back up their efforts with special prizes see to it that your county gets a good position assigned it on the tale exposition grounds and then let it be known that you expect the farmers to help till fill it chy why not get up local prize contests for the boys and girls who are willing to grow some exhibition things or make some butter or raise some chickens and eggs on oil dr arv y larid home place if you are interested in this matter write to the ilie secretary tor for information regarding classes and prizes premium lists will be issued a at an early dameto date the congress is is trying to show that western lands need only intelligent tell igent cultivation to make inake the region produce its share of the worlds agricultural wealth success cornea comes through im resisting the things that oppose one the lands that thirst for water have bave been the arena of the worlds greatest history in the past by striving we can make western dryland dry land farms the cradle of agriculture for the northern hemisphere enlist with us UH in the cause and do it now |
