The Globe-republican., 1902-05-01
A Reply to King Rex.

of the w heat Belt, we have attained
object. that is. have brought out
discussion of how TO raise wheat in the
sssemi- arid,' lands of Western Kansas.
My friend, King Rex, has given us good
advice, but will the farmers take that
advice? Thanks, oh, King, we have been
reading Prof. Campbells writings ever
since he first commenced publishing the
same, and 1 am close adherent to all
his theories and ideas and endorse his
plan of how to conserve the moisture. 1t
is said that q wise man often changes but
a fool never This saying is true with
our farmers. Some of them will read and
learn but the majority of our farmers
will not change. They will tell us how
they used to farm in s.Ohighan' and that
is right and so they continue still in the
old way-result, a total or partial failure,
and then cuss the country no good.
It was astonishing to hear that G. Nj.
Shain one Of your graduates, and
he was teaching others how to successful
~ raise wheat with or without rain
Why bless your eyes. Bro. Me, Tip has
been taking lessons from for the last
two years. Perhaps Tip has back-slid
from my teaching; if SO it is too bad.
Now, Bro. King Rex, il Mic, Tip and
Chalk and all the rest of the kings and
princes the south side of the creek
out of your eyes, so that you can see plain
and then come oyer on the north side.
will agree to show you around. We will
show you regular eye opener. We will
show you the best piece of wheat in Ford
eOunty-so say those who have travelled
oyer the different parts of the county.
My dear brother. would prefer to
live ia Republic than in the Kingdom
of Servia or any other kingdom. In the
Republic of Grandview, every man is a |
r,,lntocrat, if he wishes to be. He can |
vote for any man after the convention ]
has picked out the for him. No,
we will still stick to the Republic of
Grandview.
More intelligent work is what will give
better results We had better plant 40
acres of wheat right and harvest 40 bush
els per acre than to plant so acres and
only harvest 20 bushels per acre. The
total yield would be the same; but then
it costs 81. 90 per acre to harvest the ex-
ira 40 acres and then there is the expense
of blowing, narrowing and seeding that
so acres, and the total the same amount
of yield from the 10 acres and the so
acres. This is one of the principles of
Prof. Campbell's mode of farming.
My friend, King Rex is right. If
every farmer would set aside piece, say
10 acres, and pillow that in June and har
row after every rain and keep the weeds
down, then plant that in wheat about
October 1st, my word for it, he will be
sure of 35 or 40 bushels per acre.
L fully endorse all that Bro. King Rex
has said and am very much pleased to
know that I went right to headquarters
for my Information.
Farmers, lets get move on ourselves
and take our brothers advice, and learn
how raise wheat in Ford county, Kan
Farmers can get Prof. CampbelFs
treatise on soil culture and how to con-
serve the moisture by sending 40 cents to
H. w. Campbell, Holdredge, Nebraska.
Every farmer ought TO provide himself
with one of these books; 40 cents is not
much. There is vast amount of
knowledge to be obtained in reading and
posting up on new IDEAS Men never get
too old to learn and farming needs more
study than any other branch of business.
Intensive farming is the rallying cry.
Less acreage and better and a more intel
ligent way of farming is what will turn
out the big yields when we get around
the threshing machine.
We have an object lesson before our
eyes right now. Those who trusted to a
volunteer crop have got left partially
so. How it must please a man to look
over his fields and see a total failure of
his crop, when others have as fine pros
pect as has ever presented itself at this
time of year. If we examine closely we
will find that not only the volunteer crop
but the crop that was planted in with the
volunteer crop are both entire or par
tial failure. Of course, we are all liable
to lose our crop yet before harvest time
comes.
In our talk on farming, our friend, \.
B. klaine, viii have to bear with in
using printers ink; but our cause is just.
We. the farmers are the mud stills of So
cIety; but our shoulders rest the whole
supeFstructure of all government, all
other Industries depend on the farmer;
that being a fact we must use lots of
printers ink. We shall be pl- ased to
hear from King Rex or any one of the
south side wheat plutocrats at any time