Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-04-03

that, nature imposes.
FOR ceutufles. ai oyer c~ontinenta.
Europe. especially on Inc gyeul pld,ns'
vi Russia, general farming has uvv..
earned GA and crops pgoGdc.d ever.
year with hall the rainfall that You
have here, because tney nave seeos
adapteu TO iocai ~conaitiuns. The, ad
rum, or as il is frequently called, .,nS
macarunl waeat, has been prodvcea
in the Volsa regions oi Russia, Win 6
nine.inch rainfall, tor more tnan "A
hundred years, These are tacts.S mo-
opinions. Even We, win all The az
vancement We have MADE IN asrical
tural science, mad TO 20 10 hass't
10 Set oue uroutn reslstcnt seeds.
You may know what strides We ar,
taking In the solution OF The prom
lem OF droutn resistance seeds 10.
our local conditions, when ! tell YOU
that the hrs, crop OF durum wheat
OF any commercial Importance MAS
harvested in ,his c0antry in 1901, aas
it was one hundred thousand bushels
and this years harvest Ot the sam
cereat, Just four years later, Is 80,
OOO, 900 bushels. We exported L.
France and Italy this year more Than
C,OOO,0O0 bushels OF this wheat. II
Is no r-eommon thing for this wheat
TO produce forty bushels to the mere
out among the cactus beds oi eastern
Colorado, without irrigation. can
furnish you the names OF hall q u
bred farmers who have produced
more than twenty-five bushels Of this
wheat to the acre, without any parti
cular effort to prepare the soil care
fully. Just suppose WI "a rs'se
nothing else here on these plains but
durum wheat at the rate OF even
twenty bushels to the acre and can
get sixty cents a bushel for II, DC
you think il worth while making the
effort or do YOU no.! What Is land
worth per acre, any how, do you
think. that will produce twelve dol.
lars per acre per year In terms OF
bushels Of wheat? Isn't twelve dol.
lars per acre ten per cent on 2 warn
alton OF 1920 an acre? Well,a you
can buy several acres out here near
your own city for one hundred ano
twenty dollars.
The third and last factor that we
are considering is soil. and its adapta-
bilitv for retaining moisture. NOT all
the lands upon our plains are capap'e
Of producing twenty bushels OF wheat
to the acre for not ali of them nave
the sub-soii best adapted TO holdins
moisture. The best conditions are d
rich sandy loan surface n clay
subsoil. Your soil here is simply
iaeal. Gravel or sandy surface, or
snhsoil should he avoided. lnere
are millions of acres Of the rlcnes'
wheat land in the world sight here u
New Mexico. and the men VINO are
j mildly coming into ownership Of y
do not live in the territory either
Much of your ~unoccnpied lands are
now in the hands Of large eastern
syndicates. This ought not SO 10 De
Thev only buy it for specnlativeMpu F
noses. We want TO see 1t settleo ns
bona fde residents who will cultivate
it.
II some one here asks the pueri!t
question: Why didn't some n dis
cover all this long ago. VIII az
swer him as the yankee would Dy
asking why didn't he buy corne'
lots in this town when he could hav'
had them for several thousand pc
cent. less than he a buy them now
or why wasn't the telephone inven
tod ave centuries ago? You probably
do not need to be told that wne'
this invention was suggested som
years ago. there we're those who scoi
fed at the idea that such a thing wer'
possible. Those who scot, at the an
r~ouncement Of new discoveries ar'
usally the type % folk who prid'
themo ives on their opinions but wh'
do M possess the mental acuime'
necessary to ascertain and assimiiat
the facts. They are the sort o. pei
ple Who always have to pay 2 nor
dred dollars for an article that tnei
farsslgheed neighbors buy for &c
whSn Il Is somewhat unpopular TON
vest ii such goods.
i should like to take as much tim
- il allotted to me for the discussio
81 this entire subject to talk abou
the Campbell System Of Soil Culture
seeds adapted to local condition
are GOOD. and, and . knowledge q %
Dreciuitation is necessary, but BY 10
he most important thing - carer
ureparation Of the soil. This Is wns
the Campbell system stands for-car
ful u~reparation of the soil with q we
70 conserving q great as possible
percentage Of the moisture. 9 g
learn all abous this system throue
the Campbell System Farming ass
citation that has its offices In De|
yer.
have MOI the time to tell you VIII
ia being done and what has pee
done for years BY Mr.. Campbell.
wnf only mention n ms. &c. I
took q piece Iof ground at Hill q
in western Kansas on which the
had been ten consecutive crop "a
ures, attribute8 70 lack Of mols,u