Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29
SUCCESS WITH DRY FARMING.
How a Farmer of Eastern Colorado
Solved the Problem.

An inspection trip to western Kansas
or eastern Colorado during the cropping
season will convince the rankest skeptlc
that the dry farming proposition has
results OF the most substantial kind to
back II up Old men who have lived
on the plains and attempted 10 farm
there for the past 20 years viii tell you
that they are Just beginning to learn
how 10 farm They are just beginning
10 wean themselves from old methods
Of farming. They no longer plant their
crops and sit down 10 wait for rain.
but keep everlastingly counting" their
fields. They make the most of what
they have and by keen observation are
slowly developing methods that seem 20
produce crops In abundance under the
most adverse conditions. The follow
ing letter recently received from w. T.
Galloway OF Vernon, col, by Prof. w
II. Olin at the Colorado Agricultural
college IA the testimony Of many OF
the successful farmers on the plains:
A NEW POLLEN TO SOLVE.
81 harvested IS bushels per acre. by
weight, Of wheat on my farm here last
year. What | have done, any man
with brains and Drawn backed up by
grim determination can do.
I'm the first place. wife and | have
had hard row 10 hoe living from the
bottom Of the larder portion Of the
time, but always playing the game We
tried for Is years to farm as we did in
the east and the result was one con-
tinual failure. We had a problem--a
new one here to solve and we have
kept at II until we have at least made
start. We have labored under the
greatest difficulty that any agricultural
community ever had to put up with
being harassed by the cowboys. hooted
at by the cattle kings, and roasted by
the agricultural press When we raised
a big crop the fact was never men.
toned In the papers but mind you,
when we made a failure columns Of I
told you so were written, We pioneers
out here on the plains were deluged
with advice TO get out of the country
and leave It to the cattle men, for
whom nature intended IT, This advice
only served to make US all the more de-
! termined-for no money accompanied
the advice to move and we had 20 stay.
THE CAMPBELL SYSTEM
"It was root hog or die with us and
we kept trying. Finally here and there
q farmer would raise good crop. ard
we We're All after him 20 know how he
did It. Just like drowning men graspine
az straws. We then began 10 read
about the Campbell system and began
| TO think for ourselves. In 1891 ] sowod
n half bushe OF oats per acre and the
| birds gobbled half OF II before / could
I get II covered 7 harvested Il and
( the thresher recorded 30 bushels per
| acre. Wife and I made enough money
out Of our crop that year to take trip
| 10 look for a ney location. We wens
! down into Kansas and Oklahoma and
returned homo satisfied that we could
! DO well where we were
A DRY SEASONS BIG CROP.
"The winter OF 1903 was a dry. open
| one. ] drilled I'm some winter wheat In
| corn stubble In January. No moisture
! fell until May 81. The grain aid not
sprout and planted the field IN corn
| The weeds and scattering wheat
choked out the corn. With six-hOrse
! team and n lister went over that field
and turned under every growing thing
on IT, This was completed by the last
OF June used my toothe1 harrow IN
| July after good rain. and seeded the
ground to Turkey red wheat about tho
| middle OF September, putting one half
bushel per acre into the ground. T
| harvested ~ bushels per acre from
this field. My nelghbors said Il wns q
| fine showing. but Il was an accident
and dared me to do Il again 7 told
| them 7 not only could 40 as we'll but
| could beat that record. And did.
| FIFTY-FIyE BUSHELS AN ACRE.
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