Show ALL NATIONS INVITED TO DRY FARMING CONGRESS Billings Mont An Aug Secretary John T Burns to today a Is the official call for the fourth session of the Dr Dry Farming Congress to bo be held at Billings on tana October 1909 The call callIs callis Is addressed to the president or of the United States time the diplomatic of foreign nations minis ministers an and secretaries or of agriculture of all governors of states ts or of agricultural colleges Inn hand boards state engineers state boards or Of agriculture national state an and count county associations I horticultural societies county commissioners mayors ors of clUes cities presidents I dents of towns all commercial bodies railroad aul ami immigration companies I and members o of the Dry I Congress In addition to these time the call Is sent to lo about individual farmers and amid others In agri agriculture agriculture culture In time the west Time Tho call caB outlines time the objects or of the tho congress as a follows To discuss and compare methods b by which time the great groat area of arM arid land can be profitably utilized under thor ough b by which the natural rain i fall can be conserved I ITo To encourage the use tim of oC methods I by br which in Ie distrIcts where rainfall I Is or Irrigation water Is him I Hed the productive acreage can be Increased I To create closer cooperation be the government and state eX perth In charge or of dry farming ox work and amid time the actual farm farmers arm ers elS of the tho arid districts To enlarge the for carrying on a great educational propaganda by which time the arid districts or of I II the entire world can be populated by I prosperous and contented bits bitsI I Ito I To encourage legislatIon looking to Increased fe federal eral and state appropriations for tIme tho establishment or of more experimental stations time the em i oL oi more Held field experts and andi i tho actual cooperation of all those stations in Ie fixing and maintaining a certain recognized standard or of meth methods for results from the tho operation of farms In the arid To stud study methods and results of dry rr farming operations in time tho various western states and In foreign coun countries tries which ar represented In thi congress comm gress I To a better understand I Ing or of the value alue or of agricultural edu education cation In the public schools of time the wesL To bring to the attention of active farmers time the varIous theories anti anel working plans whereby each farmer armer ma assist In the tho general commer clai social and political or of the western states This will HI be strictly an rind and development congress states time the can call All irrelevant mat mattel matter tel ter he eliminated There will wili bo be boI I technical practical farming horticultural I tural livestock anti and see sec lions anti and It Is 15 that the tho worlds best experimental authorities and actual commercial farmers will willI willbe I I be present Time rho program will give glye I ample limo for open discussions anti antione one wll be devoted to talks b by farmers A notable feature will he Governors da day when time tho chief ex cx executIves of many western states win winI I address the congress The Tho personal I representatives of ninny foreign na nat naI t I will participate in time tho I |