The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-06-06
QUESTION
OF FACTS
\. ". Campbell Says Big Pan
handle Wheat Yields De-
pend on Right Farming


at Clmmaron, Kan, whore have
Just visited, one man who has been
following my dry farming system for
a number OF years expects . yield
OF wheat this year OF tlfty bushels to
the acre" said Professor II. W..
Campbell, the dry farming man this
morning during a conversation at the
Elmhirst hotel.
The average yield In that country
this year." continued Mr., Campbell,
will be about three or four bushels
per acre. saw the field the man
referred to while was there and /
am confident that It will run forty
bushels. 10 may run fifty bushels
as the owner predicted. Last year
the same man got yield OF forty
eight bushels while his neIghbors
got an average OF about fifteen No
that man does not try crops on his
land every year but allows II to lie
fallow In proper condition every 9TH
or year.
~ am now going down to Bovina
TO look after some business affairs
at that place. no longer have any
connection with the farm at that
place but am interested In H. I
understand that the crop this year
is promising In spite OF unfayorable
conditions generally in the country
around. Last year You remember
we got thlrty-five bushels to the acre
on first year land, although we did
not have as much rain at Boyina as
you had here at Amarillo.
wheat generally in tho Panhan-
die looks bad. ! have visited many
parts of the Panhandle and there Ia
very little wheat that will give n sat
isfactory yield The reason for the
short crop cannot be ascrihed alto
gether to lack OF moisture TguR
you have had dry winter and spring
but before that you had an abund-
ance OF precipitation TO make a good
crop. / know that can take Pan
handle land and produce good yields
every year. That may sound like an
extravagant claim but II is moi guess
work. The records prove that you
have ample rainfall and you have a
fertile soil. The rest is simply a
question Of farming.
1.-THE idea that my system calls for
an increased expense In the planting,
care and cultivation OF the crop, is
erroneous. My system does not re-
quire more time and more expense
than Is required in careful farming
anywhere but II requires that the
farming work be done at the proper
time and in the proper manner Work
done right at the wrong time
10 almost as bad as work done wrong
or not at all.
ITO illustrate, man near our
Burlington farm In Nebraska bought
q farm and began farming under my
system. He raised crop successfully
one year. Then immediately after
harvest according to our custom he
dIsked up the field. Then hebegan
to pillow and plowed a strip several
rods wide around the field. On ac-
count of illness In his family he had
to leave before the plowlng was COM
plete, and before he returned crop
OF weeds had grown up In the UNI
plowed portion. He then completed
the portion and seeded It at the same
time and cared for II the same as he
did the other. The next spring 1,
with several other good judges OF
wheat went into the field, and the
strip which the man he'd plowed Inn
mediately showed wheat that would
yield fifty bushels to the acre, The
part that had been neglected tiil
later had a crop that would Yield
twenty. l
what l want to do now is TO get
model farms started IA over the
'semi-arid west for gthe demonstrR-
ton OF dry farming methods. IT'S
all right to talk and lecture and write
but while you are doing that the old
farmers will listen and read and say,
well, that sounds all right, but we
never saw anything like that and
we've been farming a long time
We are going to make q company to
toach the system by correspondence
but / want farms where can show
the land. the yield and now 1t came
about. This land will Yield richly
every year but It must be farmed
right"
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