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tions and two of the foreign delegates tonight stated that they would take 

 the trouble to translate the bulletins of this congress into their native 

 language and to see that the agricultiiral departments sent them broad- 

 cast to their own farmers. I believe that this is only a beginning of an 

 International movement along this line. 



"The foreign consuls of the United States throughout the world have 

 been requested to report on arid farm conditions directly to the office of 

 this Congress, and eventually there will be a great international corre- 

 spondence system by which members of this Congress will be enabled 

 to study every item of interest pertaining to dry farming development 

 throughout all the world. 



"Foreign nations are taking hold of this study. The Mexican delegate 

 stated this afternoon that it would give him great pleasure to hold a dry 

 farming institute for Mexico and take up the work of this Congress in 

 his own country, and he stated that there were hundreds of English 

 speaking farmers in Mexico who should soon be receiving publications of 

 this congress if he could bring it about. 



Fake Advertising. 



"We have always stood for honest newspaper work and the exploita- 

 tion of facts only, and I believe the Congress would have continued along 

 that line regardless of any resolution presented giving such instruction. 

 it will stand for honest exploitation and honest writing by the men who 

 attempt to describe conditions in a dry farming district, and I believe will 

 openly resent any dishonest statements either favorable or unfavorable 

 to dry farming; at least, that is the intent of the Executive Committee 

 and its officers. 



"The enemies of dry farming are beginning to understand The Dry 

 Farming Congress is a very serious organization; that it intends to take 

 its educational propoganda into all the world and to make dry farming 

 as well known as is possible by means of printer's ink, or correspondence 

 and through every system that may be considered reasonable and feasible 

 by the Congress. 



"I have a letter from a gentleman well known throughout the United 

 States : 



Publishers Interested. 



" 'Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 25, 1909. 

 " 'Third Trans-Missouri Dry Farming Congress, Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



" 'Gentlemen: As scientific editor of The American Boy, published rn 

 Detroit, Michigan, I wish to advise that the publishers of this magazine 

 stand ready to assist in the promotion and study of dry farming to the 

 extent of devoting a section of same each month with a view of interest- 

 ing the young men of this country in the movement, if the sons of mem- 

 bers of the Congress and the members themselves so desire it. 



" 'Very truly yours, 

 " 'H. A. R. GRAY, 



