Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1909 — ‘DRY FARM’ CONGRESS IS MEETING TODAY [ARTICLE]

‘DRY FARM’ CONGRESS IS MEETING TODAY

Alms at Making Arid Western Lands Mnre Productive. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 23.—More than a thousand delegates, representing every state in the west and several foreign countries, were present at the opening today in the Capitol Avenue theater of the third annual transmlssouri dry farming congress. Although the movement to bring together the tillers of the arid lands of the west is only three years old and its formal organization dates from last year’s congress, it already ranks in importance with the national irrigation congress and the transmississlppl commercial congress. The purpose of the congress is the discussion and comparislon of methods by which the arid districts can be placed under tillage and the natural rainfall conserved, closer co-operation between the state and government departments in studying dry farming methods and the employment of statisticians, lecturers, experimental farmers, etc., whose duty it will be to visit the various states, meet the farmers personally, attend farmers’ institutes and work with the agricultural stations all over the west in disposing of the problems now before the farmer of dry lands.