Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-01-23

very slowly. baa all groBat powFA Is
parker aud harvt,wei kefrre work
II stopped for dinner or Cor .he night's
rest. No matter how lon2 I tire must
elapse before the planting "t the next
crop, the ground 10 haFro~~d over hf,
tar every rain. but never wh@e II II
dry. through winter and %BmmAr tails
persisten. and untlring stirring ~ The
soil mulch In continued. Whether n
thing Is planted or DO The dry
farmer. therefore, knows N sesson ct
rest or idleness. He knows tha: et"r'
nal vigilance is the price =" must pay
for good crops He not only bs~ieN"-
but practices. the gospel o: york. and
richly deserves the ample '<s@sd7
that are surely his.
Requires Less Seed.
THE ordinary farmer "n the plains
sows forty quarts of wheat to I'D"
acre and threshes anywhere from
nothing at all up In twenty bushels
The average crop grown in Kansas
,or the las, fourteen years has been
thirteen bushels 10 the acre. and hf
teen bushels 10 the acre was 'he
highest average for the state In the
xaar a, that time. The farmers who
follow the Campbell system SOW on
ly twelve quarts to the acre. ana
never fail 10 harvest from thirty'five
TO fifty.six bushels. Last year the
third largest crop ever produced ID
Kansas was cut. II averaged twelve
and thres%auarters bushels. aggre
eating 75,57c.SG7 bushels. grown on
5,S54,Oi7 acres Of land, The average
crop grown In the state by users oil
dry farming methods vas thirty,sev-
! en- bushels to the acre. II this aver
age had been maintained throughout
the state the Kansas crop for 1905
would have amounted ~ 2l6.5@9. 7I9
bushels.
The average annual precipitation
between the foothills 0f the Rocky
mountains and the Kansas.Nebraska
line IL H93 inches. In this arid re-
gion, in which long experience has
proved ordinary agricultural methods
to be improbable. there IL a mar
gin Of almost three inches over the
requirements for the successful fol
lowing OF dry farming methods, and
J~ulesburg. Iimon and many other
| Furnishing agricultural communities
are living witnesses Of the efficacy
Of the Campbell system. While an
annual rainfall OF twelve inches is
sufficient 10 bring the maturity Of
any ordinary farm crop, there are
many special crops that a be
grown with a good margin Of profit
with an average annual rainfall If
less than ten inches.
Among the crops proved to be
particularly adapted to cultivation
on the higgh. dry plains r dwarf
Milo maize, Turkestan alfalfa. KAT
fir corn, peas. emmer. Swedish oats,
beardless barley. native %white-stem
grass and several other native
grasses. More important than any
Of these. however. Is durum. or mac,
aroni wheat. The first crop of this
of commercial Importance grown In
the United States was harvested i
1901. and amounted TO loo, 900 bush.
els. Last year the crop exceeded Is.
O00, 900 bushels, II will not thrive in
humid regions. requiring for its
most perfect development a dry eli
mate and a semi-arid land. The va
riety best adapted to cultivation on
the American plains is Kabanka du.
rum, native to the great plains of
Russia north of the Sea of Azov,
where the climatic conditions exist,
Ing In Eastern Colorado and West,
ern Kansas and Nebraska are almost
reproduced. Experiments
Conducted by the Colorado State
Agricultural College last year at Lit
in Arapahoe county, resulted
In an average yield OF forty-seven
bushels to the acre without irriga
ton. At Fort Collins, near by. a
small irrigated field yielded forty-five
bushels to the acre, but Of a quality
very inferior to that grown on non-
irrigated land, Exhaustive tests have