Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-01-23
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Tia sosa@waaK aF4teas 81 Dry FaFTn
inx~ ID F@RseasesA tFom . Fesens Issue
u IL Dallas. Tex@s. sewA, On gives
a Ke1esal @as3iEe a shat Dry FaFny
ing~ IL. &na ~ this paEtaealar seetiaa
od sew Msxieo ID Vesy much anssreEs-
- In hearnang how 10 ~ealFlEsse 0s"
@pdl wtaA profit. we bes~w1th reproa8or
TIE article TN falI:
Tssafy years I'D this rsnntA. Nor,
eEaeF. Rob@st GaRak. soah thsn anf
noe connected g1sh The editorial d.
par4neas a fhe Drawer Republican.
wro&e m editorial eatttaed: IL There
a. Aria Regton9~
Mr.. Gauss. by a serbsw Of FxpeFt
Hnem&s conducted by Aimseif 90 his
Own responsibility. has demonstrated
that the druBght resistant properties
~ plants . he n0aabiy Increased by
breeding. and benee that by careful
saed aeaacai0a arl the cereals and many
other valuable eFup species ean be
adapted 10 arid conditions. Thus al
tha vast plains region lying east u the
main rsnse of the Rocky Mountains
may ultimately he reclaimed 10 pro
aBetive and profitable agriculture
through aeciinstiatton and without the
NE N a drop Of water In irrigation.
The work u Mr.. Gauss. great 10 1t
In. vas anticipated ana carried Into the
entire field Of farming by VI. W. Camp.
bell of Lincoln. Neb.. nov known AZ
ahe Father IL Dry Farming,
In July u this year the Century
Magazine reviewed his work 81 length
In an article entitled: Dry Farming
The Hope % the West" Prom that AZ
ticle the following 10 quoted:
II has been demonstrated on ~
many more model farms m~aintaine4
By western railroads. and on hundreds
Of private farms. that oil that 10 ne
cessary On the plains and In the In
teFrnonntaIn parks and valleys IN In
teaiigently 90 make the most Of the
rains and SHOWS that fall In order d
grow IN good crops A. can be RAISED
anywhere. In other words. farming
methods must DO adapted 20 natural
conditions. This seems 70 simple and
seifeyident that the only wonder II
that men have been 20 very slow IN
finding u out. 10 ought not 10 be hard
10 believe that lands that produce the
rich buffalo and gramma grasses OF
the plains without cultivation, a be
made 10 produce crops stili more valu.
able with cultivation adapted to the
soil and climate. Carrying the same
argument a little further. there are
many who believe that wherever sage.
brush. cactus plants, yucca. Spanish
bayonet and grease wood will grow
plants of economic value may be made
10 grow, also.
However, what the National De-
partment Of Agriculture, the various
state governments and the great rail.
road corporations have at last been
made TO see. has been demonstrated
every season for twenty consecutive
years by II. W. Campbell, Of Lincoln,
Neb., the pioneer dry farmer" OF arid
America. In scores Of places from
the james river to the Arkansas he
has been uniformly successful In pro
ducing without irrigation the same re-
suits that are expected with irrigation
with comparatively nrtie additional
expense, but not without a great deal
more watchfuiness and labor. What
western people have become accust'
omed to calling the Campbell system
on dry farming" consists simply In the
exercise Of intelligence. care. patience
and ~tireless industry. II differs in de.
tails from the good farming" meth.
DDS practiced and taught at the var.
ioug agricultural experiment stations: