Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-04-03
Las Vegas Practically Certain Of
Campbell Demonstration Farm
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Campbell hau these ave consecutive
crops and the fellow before him had
Ten consecutive failures, Bun figure
Tor yourself whether or not half This
much wheat per acre even, Is or y
not desirable than u crop vi
buffalo grass, cactus bloom and prai-
RE dogs.
Many OF you recall the dry years
here and In western Kansas and Ne
hraska when The government sent
food rains from Washington 10 as
sist those who made slip-shoi at
tempts 70 produce crops upon the
prairies and failed. Those who scorn
The idea that the Campbell system
can accomplish wha, We claiir II Is
accomplishing and will continue 10
accomplish. point trinmphantly 20
hose disasters as evidence Of what
We are TO expect In years when pre-
cjpitation is below normal. But J
wish TO impress upon you that the
Campbell system will 10 well succeed
in conserving an exccss OF moisture
in the soil in seasons when the pre-
c.pitation Is above normal land We
have them frequently that when n
dry year does come successful crops
viii be absolutely assured.
Mr.. NJ. A. Carleton, cerealist Of the
department Of agriculture at Wash
ington told me recently, that during
these years Of drouth IN western Kan.
sas there was aNcolony OF Memonites
who raised abundant crops every
year. because they came from Russia
where they had learned how TO be
| prepared for dry seasOns. Doesn't
this solitary illustration suffice to
prove TO thinking men that mad
| American farmers practiced the same
careful methods employed by this Me-
monte colony. they too would have
had plenty instead of poverty:
The man who has no purpose IN
life but to ridicule an idea that Is
new to him because It didn't originate
in his own Uranium will not go out
u his way to gather such facts es
the one l relate concerning the Memo
mite colony. But the man who has
| the faith that nature will surely as
| sist him 10 conquer the cactus and
the desert. when the essentials are
supplied has his mind open TO re
| cefvs every fact that comes his way.
The men Who solve the worlds great
est problems are those who look for
light. from whatever direction 1t NAV
come. They have no prejudicsfkts
foster. They have no opinions tha'
are so sacred that they cannot aban
don them when the facts that make
their opinions ridiculous are set be
fore them. d
As have suggested be
fore several times during this
talk, problems are not solved
by adding together an intnitS
OF opinions each with a value of zero
One cold stubborn fact outweigh
them All. Let us have the facts an
the facts only.
| would be derelict in my duty !
II leave the impression in the mind o
any one here that all this is easy
It. requires skill and judgment ant
experience to get out Of our sem!
arid lands, without irrigation, tn
possibilities that inhere in them
.4These possibilities are little short Q
astounding when they are revealed
through scientific methods of soil cul
'Iture. But scientific soil culture i
than a mere phrase. Its prac
'Efice requires the knowledge Of a mas
liter and its successful demonstrated
demands the closest attention to Dc
tails.