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Show UTAH TO HAVE BIG DRY FARM EXHIBIT SPOKANF. WASH., Aug. 2 S. Recognizing Rec-ognizing tho Importance of the Dry Farming Congress and International Kvpo'.lilou. tho I'nlted States government govern-ment lias derided to make a large, display dis-play of the products of Its experiment stations and demonstration, farms in Spokane tho week of October o. The exhibit will be the most comprehensive comprehen-sive of its kind ever displayed at a world exposition. Professor fl. II. Powell, chief of the bureau of plant Industry of the do partment of floriculture, has appointed appoint-ed Professor B. L. Adams of the station sta-tion at Phllhrook. MonL to take charge of collecting and installing the gov crnmonfs exhibit, which will occupy a space of (10 lineal feet in tho exposition expo-sition tent al the fair grounds Professor Adams announces that the display will couslst mainly of pralns, plants and root crops, crown at the experiment stations and demonstration demonstra-tion farms at Hello Fourche, S. D., Philbrook. Akron. Colo. Caldwell. Idaho, Ida-ho, Xephl. Utah, Morrow, Ore:. New-castle. New-castle. Wyo . Mitchell. Nob, Delaart, Tex., and Dickinson. N. n. "Professor Adams promiseg an exhibit ex-hibit that will arouse the enthusiasm of the most skeptical," said Martin J. Wesgels, superintendent of exhibit, "and the result will he that creator acreage in the sctnl-nrid states will be devoted to dry farming In the future. The covernmcnt will show condijslvo proof of tho value or this modern method of tlllace with Its display. "Wo have received exhibits from various parts of tho northwestern and Pacific states, and there Is every reason rea-son to believe that the exposition will be tho largest and most comprehensive comprehen-sive of any that has yet heon organized organ-ized on the American continent." |