36 DRY LAND FARMING 



fifth congress was held at Spokane, Wash., in October, 

 1910. At the meeting held in Utah, an exhibit of dry 

 land products was made. This feature has been main- 

 tained at all the annual meetings of the congress that 

 have since been held. The attendance at these meetings 

 has been increasingly large, and the interest taken in 

 them will be understood from the leading part taken in 

 them by the governors of the various states in which 

 they have been held. 



The congress is fortunate in its secretary, Mr. John 

 T. Burns, whose excellent management of the affairs of 

 the congress has done much to bring it before the various 

 nations of the world. The stimulus which this congress 

 is giving to the dry farming movement in many lands 

 cannot easily be measured. In several of the dry farming 

 states, auxiliary branches of the congress have been or- 

 ganized. Utah led in these. organizations, the first auxil- 

 iary having been established in that state in 1907. 



The movement thus inaugurated by the dry farming 

 congress has been given much aid by the public press, 

 by certain of the railroads, by the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, and by some of the experiment sta- 

 tions. 



The press, and especially the agricultural press, has 

 given wide publicity to the work of the dry farming con- 

 gress from its first inception. It is now giving much 

 publicity to dry farming methods, especially that por- 

 tion of it located in the west. The dry farming congress 

 has its official organ, and periodicals are now being in- 

 troduced devoted entirely to the discussion of dry farm 

 problems. 



During recent years certain of the railroads have en- 

 couraged demonstration work along their several lines 

 / in the semi-arid country. This work had for its object: 

 (1) to show conclusively that dry land crops could be 

 successfully and profitably grown. That this was pos- 



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