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Show CONGRESS OF FARM WOMEN Mt Colorado Springs, Colo , Oct. 17. Tho second session of the sixth International Inter-national Dry Farming congress today followed a meeting of tho Farmers' Institute. The feature of tho day was the convening of tho first International Internation-al Congress of Farm Women. More thn 100 women from twenty-ouo twenty-ouo states have registered. Among those who participated wore Miss-M. Miss-M. K. Allison, of tho Fort Collins State Agricultural college, who gave a practical demonstration of variety in meals on the farm: Mrs. Mary Plerco Van ZIlc, professor of domestic domes-tic science at tho Kansas State Agricultural Agri-cultural college who spoke on food values, and Mrs A. H. Melvin of Sedan, Mont, who took dairying as her subject At tho Farmers' institute interesting interest-ing discussions of possible pioducts in dry farming areas were led by W. Frank Gardner of Sturgis, S. D.; Prof H. M. Cottrell. agricultural com-mlssloneor com-mlssloneor of the Rock Island railroad, rail-road, and Prof E. H. Webster, dean of tho Kansas Agricultural college. Among those who read papers were Prof. F. E. Waggoner, machinery expert ex-pert of Chicago; Romulo Excobar, Juarez, Mexico; H. L. Booloy, North Dakota Agricultural college, and W. R. Motherwell, mluister of agriculture of Saskatchewan, Canada. Tho first session of the International Internation-al Congress of Agricultural CollegeeB and Experiment Statjons opened at 2 p. m. n n |