Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-05-04
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eisfaoz ~ sh~ IAarss.e kais<h~f ~
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pt0ss. d hs fosser. sws paissfixers
and tso ses-d drills. piosink. packing.
hsno~inx and seeding seinx sccom-
|pitshed 4 eee o~p<rStios. snd sf Inc
r1fs 81 fouy srres ! dzv.
The fsrm va formally opened 90
Wednesday April II. sh~n i party 81
foffy pseanla~ai lpsiseSs men ~ iAa.
ssF sad sieiniis sefs taken 10 Bennstf
and shown The methods ~ shseh IL
II es1eesed 20 Hlnstrass mo xnndrons
possibilities today lying dorm1sf IN
the rscA sosf 81 Eastern Colombo This
falI the same men snl se taken "
she same fprm and given AZ object
i@ssl.n u the Campbell, system results
accomplished In q sisrie season.
The las Vegas Farm.
The sssociatiou's second model
farm sil be formally dedicated Al
Las Vegas. Sew Mexico. On Friday.
Nay A The board 81 control Of The
iAs VEGAS land Grant. ! wonderful
BODY u III !oco scres owned by the eity
of f.as Vegas. his decided 10 The n,
soclation me section Ut i1ad aud hss
loaned IL the sum of . .soo for three
years. land and money 10 be psed fos
n. purpose az proving the sdapta
biIlts Of New Aerlco 10 ne Campbell
ssstem.
That this csn BE- done there Il III
oaesfion. The soii IN the vicinity u
Las Vegas q IL rich III any Ii ths
wesf. while the rainfall has exceed
"a m average o. is inches per annuu
for the last eighteen years. undel
the same coalitions eiaewherc scIen
tic farming has been brought 10 Il,
greatest and most successful develop
ment. and With the same principles
applied 10 the Las Vegas tract. I sim
liar development Ii practically assnr
ed.
The association has ordered anothe,
engine, this time n Of IS horse pow
er. together With a. complement a
niows, packers. harrows and drills
FOR rse % the New Mexico farm. TIT.
machinery viii Ne II operation within
II few days from May I.
The Work % . Done.
The aim OF the Campbell system
IL two fold 20 make every hours w&r
count for the production Of crops. I
70 make the land productive OF ~
greatest possible amount. with this
Idea in vie~. Prof. Campbell and hi
associates Years ago learned that ths
summer tIilage system. which ii frsl
was thought necessary III every 9th
or season. could BE- dispensed with *
Ecept once In three or four years
Prof.. Campbell has. in fact. raised
forty.bushel wheat crops Tor ave sue
eessise years, and. while Ii Il wise Il
allow mi season or summer tillage Il
least once ID every ave years. ths
principal use of the summer plowins
system has come TO be on sod ground
In other words. the nncultlvated
prairie soil OF the west n an dry a.
desert. In the majority OF Instances
and q seasons tillaGe Il necessars
In order that moisture may be had sui
ncient 10 assure ! cereal crop the fol
lowing season.
The Campbell System Farming as
ISOLATION believes that, In an ordinary
year, some crop enough not q cereal
|crop. . be raised on sod lands the