Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-02-28


ton, In Arapahoe county, resulted
in an average yield of ~ bushels to
the acre, without irrigation. At
Fort Collins, near by, small irri-
gated field yielded As bushels to the
acre but of quality very inferior
to that grown on non-lrrigated land.
Exhaustive tests have shown that
for all baking purposes this wheat
Is superior to any of the ordinary
varieties of winter and spring wheat
grown in this country; and labor
atory tests have proven that it con-
tains a higher percentage of both
sugar and gluten than do the COM
mon varieties, making it more
palatable and more easily digested
Twenty years ago J. P. Pomeroy,
now of Colorado Springs, acquired
80, 900 acres of land in Graham
county, western Kansas, and found
ed Hill City, almost In the center of
the tract. For Ia gears portions of
this tract were cultivated by old
fashioned methods. In all that time
only one good crop was harvested,
that being in a season when the
rainfall was abnormally large. lie
had heard Of Mr.. Campbell and his
system of dry farming, and sent for
him, telling him to go ahead and
show just what he could do on land
on which profitable farming by
ordinary methods had been proved
to be impossible. Mr.. Campbell
laid out model farm on the very
land that had been tried often with
discouraglng results. Last season
the sixth successive crop was har-
vested. In the IA years which old
fashioned methods were followed
l3 failures were scored. In the six
years which the Campbell system
has been on trial on the same landS,
a crop failure has been unknown.
The smallest yield of wheat pei
acre in that time has been 35 bush
els, while farmers close by never
have obtained more than Is bushels
per acre, and very rarely even that
The yield of corn, oats, potatoes,
, alfalfa, berries, small fruits anc
vegetables is equal to that obtained
from the best irrigated farms arounC
Greeley, Fort Collins, Grand juno
E tion and other parts of Colorado
under the ditch" A six year ole
orchard is in prime condition, th'
trees being as large as eight year olt
: trees in the famous fruit-growini
district of Palisades. A more com
pIete vindication of all the claim
!. made by advocates of the PRACTICABLE
f ity of farming on the plains withou
irrigation could not we'll b
s imagined.
o Near Julesburg, Sedgwick county
l. in northeastern Colorado, dry farm
it ing Is practiced more generally tha
e in any Of er portion of the wes'
t with highly gratifying results. Th
d average crop reported last year b
e the farmers of that region withot
T. irrigation were: Wheat, 35 bushe
o to the acre; corn, SO bushel; rye, 8
Of bushels; potatoes, 200 bushels; oat
he 65 bushels; mlllet, two tons, an
a. cane for forage, five tons. As a r
suit of this showing, many of Il
be farmers of the neighborhood, WI
III have been irrigating their land
rf have sold or given up their wat
fr rights and abandoned the use of d
ts, ditch entirely. A similar moyeme
m has been begun at Fort Collin
We some OF the farmers who tried bo
ny methods last season finding that d
OF farming yielded larger returns tn
o. they were able to obtain in adjol
&c, ing fields by the use of irrigatlo
Ia At the experimental snb-statl
t. of the Nebraska State Agricultul
ol College, located at North Plat
II highly satisfactory results have be
ms, obtained, under the management
ell Superintendent W. P. Snyder. j
rid has proved, not only that as go
to croDs can be grown on those parcf