Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 561.14A10/3.

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Department of State,
Washington, April 12, 1915.

To the Diplomatic Officers of the United States.

Gentlemen: Pursuant to a provision of law contained in the Agricultural Appropriation Act approved March 4, 1915, you will extend to the governments to which you are respectively accredited an invitation to be represented by delegates or representatives at the International Dry Farming Congress to be held at Denver, Colorado, from September 27 to October 8, 1915.

In doing so you will explain that the International Dry Farming Congress has for its purpose the spread of knowledge concerning better farming methods, especially in regions having light or irregular rainfall, and primarily the teaching of conservation of moisture through scientific tillage methods; and you will express the hope that the invited governments may deem it of advantage to be represented at the Congress.

In connection with the Dry Farming Congress there will be held the International Soil Products Exposition, participation in which by the nations of the world will be welcomed by the management of the Dry Farming Congress.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Robert Lansing.