HISTORY OF DRY-FARMING 



ods of conserving soil moisture and 

 raising dry-land crops. 



Dry-Farming Congress. 



Lastly must be mentioned the part 

 played by the Dry-Farming Congress. 

 This conference was started three years 

 ago in the City of Denver as a sort of 

 "side-show" to the Live-stock Exhibi- 

 tion; but it was soon found that many 

 more farmers were interested in the sub- 

 ject of dry-farming than in the pedigrees 

 of cattle, horses, and sheep. And the 

 country at large awoke to the fact that 

 dry-farming was no mere theory but a 

 subject of vast economic importance. A 

 year later the Trans-Missouri Dry-Farm- 

 ing Congress met in Salt Lake City; 

 and this year at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 

 when several foreign delegates* were 



1 The following countries sent their representatives to 

 this Congress : Australia, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, 

 Transvaal, and Great Britain. 



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