Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-02-22
TWENTY YEARS
OF cAMPsELLisM
Concluded from Third Paxe.)

ter every ralnfall. when you plOW, |
plow deeply and follow Immediately |
by the sub-surface packer and the |
Acme harrow. If the day Is warm
and dry the packer should follow the
plow in the same hour and the har-
row should not be more than sixty
well treated Is worth ten acres III
treated And good treatment. In this
case. means thorough cultivation with
all three Of the machines named.
Don't fear that your top soil mulch
will blow away. 1t won't. for II prop
erly handled, that Is, II disced as
soon as the earth will refuse to stick
to the discs, 1t will dry in the form
of small clods which the wind will let
alone.
When the Colorado land man goes
back east and presents to his pros
pective buyers facts about conditions
In this state. backing them UP with
figures showing the exact yield of
various crops raised in Colorado un.
der irrigation, his figures are 50
much in excess of tnat to which the
eastern farmer is accustomed that the
land man is usually looked upon as a
direct descendant OF Ananias. Even
when the easterner has been shown
by incontrovertible evidence that the
statements are true. he usually goes
away believing that he has been made
to believe something he ought not to
believe. So we are finding it, these
days. with regard to the Campbell
system and the crops which are raised
hereunder. The records are SO as.
founding that many people are in.
clined to regard them as hot air."
AS the vaporings of disordered mind
enervated by the Colorado altitude.
Yet these same records are substan.
tiated by years of experience. If the
Campbell system stood merely on the
results of the two last years. 1t would
have small chance to prophesy the
future. These years have been un-
usually wet. But the system itself
is not new. Campbell is not its dis
coverer. Germany has practiced II
for sixty years Eastern Colorado
and western Kansas and Nebraska
have had II for twenty years. during
which time those men who really
knew their business have farmed
without failure.
There have been failures. Every
old-tmer VIII remember how the set
tiers tiocked into eastern Colorado
Two decades ago, and how. few
wears later Denver merchants were
forced to ship out carload after car
Dad of food stuffs TO keep those same
settlers alive until they could creep
back home with an old covered wag
on and pair of decrepit mules.
But that time has passed David
Starr Jordan said the other day, Sci
ence Is human experience boiled
down TO a system" In like manner
The Campbell system is human exper-
ienee boiled down to a science. Many
men have added their experience to
the years of experiment, Some have
failed. tOhers have succeeded. But
today. out of that fiery crucible OF
human experience there has been
evolved n science and for want OF n
system 1t is a science which one
man can teach to another. and It's
results are as sure as are the ca,cl,-
lations of astronomy.
The Campbell system is not how.
ever, for every man to try in am
locality. 1t will not make bricks
without straw, neither will It grow
crops on a sand bank. 1t requires at
least twelve inches of water per wear
and soil which will produce good
crops under irrigation. in order to he
made successful. 1t requires, further
a scientific knowledge of soils and
an unending capacity for hard work
on the part of the man who tries 1t.
FIFTY per cent more soil culture Is
necessary man in the good oli-fs ST.
ioned ways of our fathers. That ex-
ira cultivation costs money, of course,
but in the end, in Colorado 1t resolves
itself merely into the question of
spending money for water for irriga-
tion purposes or for men and teams
for cultivation purposes. And when |
the value of the land is considered |
the second method will he found to |
be much the cheaper of the two. Sue |
cess or failure depends entirely upon |
the man. The system itself is as |
sure as the laws of the Medes and |
Persians.
Here in your Durango country. I
am reliably informed. your annual
rainfall exceeds fifteen inches, and
with this amount, there is every rea-
son to believe that the Campbell sys-
TEN can be practiced with even great.
er proht than on the plains of east.
ern Colorado. where the average rain.
tall is in many instances less than
twelve inches. There are 60, 100 acres
OF unimproved land In La Plata conn
ty. unimproved because unirrira,ed
why should not these acres he placed
under cultivation. If a system can be
found which will return you raod
crops for your labor in cultiyatiopo
There are millions of acres In other
sections of Colorado which TODAY lie
Idle for the same reason. In most
cases these acres are amenable to
the man who possesses plow and