Show BURNS GIVES co concerning hoerlin ho ernin g enlargement of plans for future work bigings nas congress by resolution adopted plans piano for carrying out suggestions given in secre secra report concerning the enlargement of the plans for future work the ideas suggested by secretary burns of the fourth dry farm congress recently held st rt billings mont give in most concise form the policy of the congress by resolution the congress adopted plans for carrying out the suggestions gest ions that were given in the secre annual report as follows during the year very important developments have demanded recognition of the necessity for larger plans in considering future work every state in the west and many states east of the proposed line of demarcation between the semiarid semi arid and the rain belt districts has given evidence of lively interest in the congress and its work editorial utterances in leading newspapers in new hampshire tennessee new york and other eastern states indicate that the success of the congress means untold wealth in added agricultural production in sections or of the east where drought Is an element to be by b the farmer official communications from officers of the agricultural departments of many nations indicate that the successful working out of the problems before this congress will permanently affect the prosperity of these nations and that tt it is the duty of this great organization to spread its educational work into every part of 0 the world the organization of the texas dry farming congress through the untiring work of committeeman CommUte eman martin of the general cong congress fess was a triumph which shows plainly the advancement made by this movement and the possibility lity of organizing local state organizations gan Izat ions for the p ae of arousing local interest among farmers in their own behalf in the greater study of the world problem your secretary suggests that while there should be no cessation of the w work ork along the lines already fixed by the past experience and by the constitution of the congress there should be a greater effort to establish the work through local organizations which should cooperate officially under the constitutions with the parent organization and to push the membership of the congress into every section where dry farming may be considered helpful in advancing agricultural interests As a means of fixing official federal interest in the congress in every nation it would be well to organize divisions for the various nations or empires throughout the world the division of the british empire for instance ance should contain sections of the dominion of canada the commonwealth mon wealth of australia the dominion of new zealand the union of south africa india and egypt this plan can be followed with the nations nation r of th the 0 earth no constitutional lines can be fixed at the fourth congress but sanction should be given to the administrative 0 officers for the working out of the suggestions and the preliminary establishment lish ment of the work during the year the final detailed plans to be submitted and results of correspondence and international work to be reported to the fifth congress |