DRY-FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 



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THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS 



This is the Official Proceedings of the Ninth International Dry-Farming 

 Congress, held at Wichita, Kansas, U. S. A., October 12-15, 1914. 



This volume contains a verbatim report of the proceedings of the 

 Congress; a number of papers which were read in the unavoidable absence 

 of those who were to deliver addresses; and an account of the business 

 of the Congress for the past year. 



Also there is printed, in the close of the volume, the constitution as 

 it stands today, having been amended at the Wichita Congress. 



Attention is called to two excellent definitions and dissertations on 

 the Congress, its work, its field, etc. 



The addresses at the Ninth Congress were easily the most practical 

 and interesting ever delivered at any public-welfare or useful gathering; 

 and they will not fail to be of inestimable value, not only to the scientist, 

 the research man, and the practical farmer, but to officials, businessmen, 

 and ordinary laymen; for there is no useful citizen today who is not 

 vitally interested in the progress of agricultural development. 



THE INTERNATIONAL DRY-FARMING CONGRESS 



The International Dry-Farming Congress represents something 

 tangible and practical. 

 It has a mission. 



Its research work is of the utmost value to agricultural progress. 



Its teachings have cheered countless men and women on semiarid 

 farms, and enabled them to win the battle for homes. 



It has stimulated agriculture wherever the rainfall is light or 

 irregular. 



It can point> to definite results it has accomplished, in every 

 section of the West; while the general good of its work is universally 

 recognized. 



It is the clearinghouse for progressive ideas and useful facts 

 gleaned from the experience of actual farmers; and for the widely- 

 scattered experiment stations. 



Its annual sessions and expositions are of the greatest possible 

 value to all those whose problem is to catch and to conserve moisture. 



It is easily the foremost agricultural organization in the world. 



