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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



BILLINGS IN GALA ATTIRE. 



Green and white have been selected as the official colors 

 of the Fourth Dry Farming Congress, which will meet at 

 Billings, Mont., October 26-28. The entire scheme of deco- 

 ration of the city as planned by the committee is designed to 

 show combinations of these colors which have been selected 

 as symbolical of the Congress and its work. The decora- 

 tions will include numerous electric lights, fifty extra arc 

 lamps being provided for the exposition hall and the princi- 

 pal streets. Hundreds of incandescent lamps will be strung 

 across and along the centers of the streets and the buildings 

 in the business district will be illuminated with extra lights. 

 When the buildings are hung with green and white drapery, 

 topped, as many will be, with the Stars and Stripes, and the 

 lights are turned on, Billings will present a scene of bril- 

 liancy eclipsing all previous attempts to enhance its natural 

 beauty. 



"We will be there with the goods to surprise them" 

 writes W. S. Pershing, an active members of the Congress, 

 who lives at Limon, Colo., in the heart of a large dry farm- 

 ing district. Mr. Pershing has informed Prof. W. H. Olin, 

 vice-president of the Congress, and superintendent of ex- 

 hibits for the International Dry Farming Exposition, which 

 will be held at Billings, Mont., October 25-29, that eastern 

 Colorado will be well represented with exhibits which will 

 show wonderful progress in the agricultural development of 

 that state. He also assures large attendance of delegates 

 from his section. 



Mr. Pershing has attended a number of county fairs this 

 fall in Colorado and reports that the exhibits there are un- 

 usually pood. A number of these exhibits are expected to 

 be brought to Billings, but there are many dry farmers who 

 are preparing special exhibits exclusively for the Dry Farm- 

 ing Exposition, being inspired to extra effort by the offer of 

 three trophy cups by the Denver Chamber of Commerce for 

 Colorado exhibits. Mr. Pershing himself has been very suc- 

 cessful this year, especially with his Silver Mine white oats, 

 raised without irrigation on the eastern Colorado plains. 



(Continued from page 450.) 



storms are unknown and the disagreeable east wind is 

 seldom experienced. 



Hunting and fishing are to be enjoyed at their best in 

 the valley and the mountains. Bear and wildcats furnish 

 sport for the more daring, but feathered game is plenty 

 and hunting bags are usually well filled. Streams in the 

 valley abound in fish and brief excursions into the 

 mountains usually bring a full basket of trout. 



A matter of special interest to our readers is the announcement 

 that the Bostrom-Brady Manufacturing Company, Manufacturers of 

 the Bostrom Farm Level with Telescope, are now permanently located 

 in St. Louis, Mo., a move made necessary by the unprecedented de- 

 mand in this section of the country for an instrument of the unques- 

 tioned efficiency of the Bostrom Level, and we believe every land 

 owner w.ho has draining, ditching, irrigating, terracing, grading, road 

 building to do, orchards to set out, fences to build, buildings and 

 foundations to level, etc., etc., cannot possibly invest the amount at 

 which this instrument is sold to better advantage. Read the manu- 

 facturer's card elsewhere in this issue and you will see their offer to 

 ship c. o. d. subject to examination is a most liberal one, and the 

 very best evidence that the manufacturers know to an absolute cer- 

 tainty their instrument fills to complete satisfaction a long felt want 

 of hundreds of thousands of land owners who need equipment of this 

 kind. 



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