Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-02-23 | Page 1 | Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress

Tmissoil DRY FARMING CONGRESS OPENS SESSIONS AT CAPITAL AVENUE THEATER, CHEYENNE. More Than Six Hundred Delegates present With Hundreds More to Arrive on Belated Trains. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 23. With more than sjx hundred delegates present,' pres-ent,' and with hundreds more to arrive ar-rive on belated and snow-bound trains, the third trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress opened its sessions at tho Capital Avenue theater hore thi? morning. The sessions will continue three days, and it is confidently expected ex-pected that during that time work of the utmost importance and benefit to the semi-arid regions of the country will be accomplished. A" blanket of snow more than a foot deep greeted the delegates arriving in Cheyenne, as nature's assurance that "dry-farming" was partly a misnomer in Wyoming. The streets of Cheyenne are elaborately decorated In honor of the visitors and a program of entertainment enter-tainment for every evening of the three days' sessions has been arranged. arrang-ed. Today's program includes an address ad-dress of Governor B. B. Brooks of Wyoming, president of the congress, and the reading of papers by state delegates on various phases and problems prob-lems of dry-farming. A number of state and national agronomists are on the program for addresses during the congress. . ,