Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-20

will be enormous and Will In time make
those lands worth 500 an acre.
The system which viii produce such
wonderful results Is like most good things
OF the kind-quite simple. IL consists Of
plowing and cultiyating. that's all. The
farmer who owns this prairie land Is ask
ed only to go out upon II with his plow
and turn the soil 10 depth OF from four
to eight Inches, according TO the nature
OF the subsoil. II left In that condition
the land will crack In this arid atmos.
phere. When the earth craks then. all
the natural moisture eyaporates quickly:
That Is well known fact. To avoid That
the farmer IL asked to 90 over his land,
freshly plowed. with what Is called a
packer" This Is In the shape OF wheel
ed roller that makes the fresh earth CONF
pact and secure against the escape OF the
moisture The packer leaves the earth
so that all Of the natural moisture, turned
ground 10 nourlsh the grain or vegetables
that will be sown or planted later.
Then. after each rain the "'cultivators"
60 over this surface 20 depth OF not
more than two and a half inches. This
must be done as quickly as possible after
the rain. Delay would mean that the
ground would crack, as Is the case in such
a climate. ana through these creylces the
moisture would be sucked up by the pow
erful sun and dry air. When this Is done
the ground Is ready for the grain or
whatever Is desired as a crop In the
case OF corn or potatoes this light cul-
tiyation must be kept UP between the
rows, but. OF course, in the case Of vi cat,
oats and alfalfa nothing further ,Jng
the line can be done.
Experience has shown that as q result
OF this scientific culture the fertility OF
the soil In arid regions has been more
than doubled. The system Is based on
the known laws OF nature, on the fact
that the moisture moves In the soil, that
II can be made more or less available TO
vegetable life, and that capillary attrao-
ton lifts the water 10 the surface from
below.
The discoverer Of the system IL Prof.
II. w. Campbell Of Lincoln, Neb., and his
experiment stations have produced large
results. The one at Akron, Colorado, out
upon the plains Of Colorado, where here
tofore few crops have been raised and
even the hardly alfalfa thrives but poor
~. has convinced many ranchmen that
there are treasures upon their ground Of
which they did not dream. one OF these
II ID. W. Irwin, who manages ranch
near there and whose wife Is the post
master.
I'VE have been fooled so often by fake
schemes that we were little skeptical at
first" he said. but now all Of us who
have given the Campbell system thor
ough test are delighted with 1t. ] never
produce less thdn AZ bushels OF wheat to
the acre under this system, whereas |
could produce practically nothing without
It. You see that we get the benefit OF ev-
cry drop OF rain or snow that falls dur
ing the year under the plan. We hold It
in the ground and use II when we need IT,
RAILROADS WATCHING.
PROT Campbell Is conducting expert
ment statiors at Hin City, Kan, and In
Chase counts. Neb.. as we'll as at Akron
All Of Che experiments have produced fine
results Near the Nebraska stetion 1000
acres are under cultivation with the sys-