The Glenwood post., 1907-07-20
ford, by reason of large capital and
substantial personal holdings to live or
expensive estates.

ford, by reason of large capital and
substantial personal holdings to live on
expensive estates.
Having sold his farm, the man who
is neither able nor willing to retire
must look for new location. Shall he
look in another humid section for such
farm as he needs? He adds nothing
to his condition by doing so, for he
only jumps into that from which he
has just succeeded in escaping.
In which direction, then, shall he
turn? Let him turn toward the great
stretches of the west and southwest.
But, being so advised, perhaps he
imagines he will be worse off than be-
fore stranded in "dry' country
with ruin ahead and no hope to drive
the rainless clouds away
If he imagines that, he does not
know this new west and this new
southwest of ours, where scientific
agriculture has triumphed over ma
ture's neglect and where, only a few
years ago, it was thought that nothing
worth raising would grow.
The trouble with the scmi-arid sec
tions, for so many years, was that men
did not know how to employ that
which was given them; did not know
how to obtain maximum of blessing
| from a minimum gift; did not know
| how to treat the earth and train it,
willing, as it always is, to reward the
toiler provided lie will only toll in
| telligcntly and earnestly.
Years ago certain men saw that the
| ime would soon come when the man
of moderate means would have to leave
the humid districts in order to do the
| hest for himself, provided he could find
some place to go. These few men were
plication of human methods to the pro-
visions of nature. At least one of them
has proved beyond doubt that good
crops may be raised in the semi-arid
worked out of soil which was consid-
cred worthless because of the lack of
moisture.
1t was to this end that II. w.
Campbell began working years ago,
and it was such a possibility that he
quickly demonstrated. Determined to
provc that every foot of land where
some rain fell could be turned to the
,ood of mankind, this man worked and
,xperimcntcd, with little hope of per-
Sonal gain but with the answering be-
ief that lie could do something in the
inc of scientific soil culture that would
! benefit the homeseekers of future
ears. Now the Campbell method is
nown around tie world and to his
Office in Lincoln, Neb., come inquiries
from every farming district where ex-
ira skill and properly applied industry
are needed in order to bring profitable
results.
The Campbell method is more than q
theory-it is a demonstrated fact, as
much a part of the agricultural educa-
ton of today as plowing is part of
| farm work. 1t is one of the indispen-
sable forces by means of which mil
ions of acres are to be made available
| in this last great rush for cheaper
| 'ands-a rush by means of which every
ambitious farmer can better his con-
lition if he only will.
In this development every state hav-
| ing semi-ard lands is interested. In it
| the people of the humid regions Of
| those states are interested, for the re-
demption of part means measure of
profit for all.
We know that prosperity has been
mt high tide in this country for sew
eral years, but the west and southwest
have had only their first taste of the
feast which will follow if the people
will, like the children of Israel, only
come over into the Gland of Canaan"
and possess it, making up, with effort,
for the things which nature has with
held and at the same time reaping
harvcsts larger than those gathered in
sections which do not suffer the So
called blight of half-drouth.