The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-09-07
"Dry Farming"

Denver News.
Because his trunk got lost in
the shuttle somewhere between
Texas points and Denver, Will
liam + Curtis, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, did not
appear at the real estate conven.
tion banquet last night i'll Co'o-
RADIO Springs. He did not have
the proper clothes for the occu-
sion, and so what he would have
about Colorado has gone a-gllm-
mering.
Il am just returning from
trip through Western Kansas and
Eastern Colorado, where / went
TO see the results of the work
done under the drv-farming sys-
tenn" SAID MIR. Curtis at the
Brown Palace Hotel recently.
Il have been visiting the model
farms on the dry plains in those
sections of the West, and shall
write about what | have seen.
Those model farms are being
conducted by IL. W. Campbell.
who is ali agricultural wizard.
Mr.. Campbell is raising thirty
and forty of wheat every year
without fail, while men ON the
next section arr glad to get
twelve or fifteen Hence every
one can easily see the advantage
in his system of soil culture.
II am very much interested in
this new system of dry farming.
The results are wonderful, and |
have never seen the process be-
fore. 1t is system of soil Guilt
walton which is particularly
adapted to the plains country in
the semi.arid regions. 1t will
solve the problem of agriculture
in those parts of Colorado where
irrigation is not practical, and
places the whole system of farm
ing on basis so scientific that
the man who imtelligently tills
his soil can not fail in securing "A
a crop in years of drouth as well
as n season when the rains have
been plentiful. 1t is so scientific
that it stores the moisture in the
soil where it may be utilized when
needed, and the soil cultivated
under this system can not be de-
pleted of its essential properties
after it has been cropped year
after year.
"All these plains that stretch
miles and miles in dreary monot-
ony 10 the eye of the traveller
coming from the North and East
to Denver will be rich agricult-
ural districts just as fast as set.
tiers can be placed on them who
farm on scientific methods.
There are certain fundamental
principles of the Campbell sys-
tenn OF soil culture which every
farmer in any section of the coun-
try would be the better off for
knowing, but when you actually
see the results that have been ac-
compllshed on the model farms
that have used this system for
several years no one can fail. even
if he is not a farmer, to under
stand the marvellous results OBJ
tanned.
1.-The Campbell system of soil
culture may be put into practi.
cal operation by any intelligent
farmer. There is nothing mys-
FERROUS or difficult about it. The
work must be done accurately,
and once interested and working
along these scientific lines, any
intelligent tiller of the soil must
become fascinated, as it opens
new fields for investigation and
study.
at raises the profession of
farming from an uncertain hand
to-mouth existence many of them
have led to one in which the in
vestment is as solid as a Govern
ment bond. When the farmer
learns that he does not have to
depend upon getting rain at just
such a period to mature his crop,
but can prepare his ground by
storing the moisture where he
will have 1t during that growing
and maturing period which de-
cides the measure of the harvest
he will reap, he has reduced the
question of successful agriculture
to science and eliminated the
element of chance which has been
the great drawback to many in
the past.