Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-17
Good Crops Regularly Grown.

On everyone of the farms where the
Campbell system has been adopted good
crops have been regularly grown, without
more than ordinary help; but 1t requires
more than ordinary care and labor. Mr.. Jas.
Nance, an expert, who has recently visited
the Pomeroy farm near Hill City. of which
/ told you yesterday. reports that he found
100 acres Of wheat, forty acres of corn.
twenty acres of kaff1r corn. twenty acres
of oats, ten acres Of orchard. twenty acres
Of garden. berries. flowers and groves. all
handled by the manager and one hired man.
with extra help at harvest time. But they
keep working all the year round. They
plow up their stubble the day the wheat is
cut The pillow follows Immediately after
the binder cutting furrow sevea inches
deep. and the pillow is followed by sub
surface packer-an implement similar in
shape to a disc plow. except that 1t has ten
wheels. which cut into the soil and press
II together.
The packer follows the pillow very closely.
All ground plowed is packed before quit
ting work for dinner or for the night. AT
ter the packer. harrow is used to smooth
the ground down. During the summer the
ground Is narrowed after each rain and
kept in good condition until the wheat is
sown in September. When the wheat is
four five inches high the ground is
worked over with a harrow having round,
blunt teeth, but only after rainfall-never
when the ground is dry.
Mr. Campbell does not keep the same
ground in the same kind or crops every
year. Ground planted in wheat this year
will be allowed to remain idle or planted
in some light crop next year: the Idea be-
ing to keep 1t well cultivated and the vege
tation killed.
The Gospel Union.
The Gospel Union of Cheyenne Wells fur
nishes good illustration OF dry farming.
This institution was founded by Mr.. Sears
| a surveyor of that town, who has socialIs
tic ideas as well as strong Methodist prin-
ciples. and is endeavoring to carry them
out in small way. Sears got quarter
section of land to work on shares with
God, and put 1t in wheat. The neghbors
ridiculed the idea and indeed for the first
part of the season the field looked very
poor. but Sears was not discouraged and
in reply to the jests of his neighbors he
said:
You fellers never mind. I'm work.n'
that field on shares with the Lord I've
done my part of the work and He'll do
his. Ell He don't want that 'er wheat He
doubtless has His reasons"
The crop came out all right. Sears got
900 bushels of wheat. and with the pro-
ceeds started cooperative society. work
ing farm and raising bunch Of cattle
on shares, with God a half-partner. The
Sunday school children have put In their
pennies, and have done their share Of the
work, drawing out their share of the dvi-
dends. besides contributing money from, thu,
earnings to help build church and sup
port preacher and assisting missionaries
in the foreign field. although. goodness
knows, there is plenty for missionaries to
do in this part of the country without hunt
ing the heather elsewhere.
There is an excess of piety In this Sec
ton 1t manifests itself In queer ways and
places. At several points along the I'm on
Pacific lines somebody with good intentions
has embciIished the grassy slopes on either
side of the track with inscriptions like
those used by the Salvation Army. to cali
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made up Of letters two and three feet high
formed with white cobblestonea. and are