The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-25
THE CAMPBELL DRY
FARMING CONVENTION.

The convention of Farmers that
was called for Thursday afternoon
last week, to hear addresses on the
Campbell System of Soil Culture, from
Mr.. Campbell and Professor Tinsley
met in the Court House ia Roswell
at that time and was a very large and
appreciative assembly. By some &C.
cident, Prof. Tinsley was not present
at the meeting, to the disappointment
of all. But Mr.. Campbell's address
aid the discussion following, occupied
full two hours, to the great profit of
his hearers. The meeting was under
the management of the Farmers Insti
tute. Mr.. Parker Earle presided at
the request of the president, and in
opening the meeting said:
Agriculture is the foundation of all
civilization. 1t has been SO for all
nations and for all times.
Upon it rest the great structures of
manufactures, of transportation, and
of the industrial and liberal arts. For
the institutions of human Society are
dependent on the food supply which
the farmer gives.
The mar whose device or formula
may cause the wheat and corn crops
of the United States to yield one bush
ell more per acre will add 40 million
bushels of wheat and 60 million bush
els of corn to the food supply of the
world. Such a nan would become a
benefactor of mankind.
The gentleman who will address us
a possibility. Through his struggles
with the adversities of climate as a
wheat farmer in the great, grim, for
bidding, yet fascinating Northwest,
ne has developed a system of soil cul-
ture who's possibilities transcend ina
gination.
For with Mr.. CampbelI's methods
of intensive cultivation one acre OF
land will do the duty of two acres.
And he who grew Is bushels of wheat
in the old way can grow 30 or even
40, with a little more labor, but with
three times more of net profit.
This is for the states and sections
where wheat farms and corn farms
are now operative, with a rainfall
that permits the usual production.
But Mr.. Campbel's system means
much more than this. 1t means that
the great brown plains of the West
and Southwest, with their meager wa
ter service from the skies, can be
made to yield a maximum cereal and
other crops, to support the great po-
pulations of the coming age.
In recent years the scientists of
Europe have been figuring out the
time when the worlds food supply
would become insufficient for itle
worlds population. But Mr.. Camp
bells philosophy of farming hen APP
piled to the vast areas still untouched
by the pillow, in America, and South
America, and Australia, and Africa,
will make possible a yield of human |
food ten times greater thar has yet
been see And our scientific pro-
phets can postpone the grim spectre
of the congestion and starvation of
the peoples of the earth for a millen-
of years.
Wnea the historian of these centur- |
les of marvellous development comes
to write the true story of agriculture
IS the basic industry of the world,
the name of our honored friend, the
speaker of this afternoon, will stand
high on the roll of fame, if not as the
chiefest among its apostles and pro-
l have great pleasure today, my
friends in making you acquainted with
Mr.. H. w. Campbell, of Lincoln, Ne
braska.
The Chief Address.
Mr.. Campbelrs instructive speech,
with his answers to many questions,
follows:
and Gentlemen:-
1 suppose there is not a feast that
could be set up tna would please
any more to sit Town to than to
come before this audience, as 1 look
at you apparently interested; AID if
you car c~orroborate what YOU presi-
lent has said certainly appreciate
it most heartily.
We a a subject that NEAR to US
more than almost any other science
have before us today. 1t is the
thing above all others that will
give us a balance wheel to the busi-
ness of this country.
Our present era of prosperity is the
-esult of what? Of prosperity among
farmers. Evidently providence has
smiled upon us for years and has
brought US ideal seasons that have pro
iuced good crops for US. The average
Tield of western Kansas, Nebraska
Eastern Colorado last year was
ar beyond anything ever before real
Zed.
Drop back ten years please, what
vas our condition then? Adversely
staring us n the face in every direc-
ion. No business man escaped its
fleet Millions uDon millions of east