The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-04-07
WILL LECTURE HERE
Has Project for Conducting Eduea-
tional Campaign Among the Farm.
ers Of This country-EstablishIns
Demonstration Farms.

0ede0o, WdS ~ D44lAA6S y~0sg0TUdy Wits
en- route from his home III Lincoln,
Neb., to Terry, where he will speak
today before the farmers institute.
After filling his engagement at Ter
ry, Mr.. Campbell will return to this
city and next Wednesday will deliver
a lecture at the Huse-Yates company's
store on "Soil Culture and Moisture
Conservation" The company will
serve aluncheon to the farmers Of the
valley on that day as well.
During his stay in Billings Mr.,
Campbell visited the chamber Of com.
merce and met a number Of the farm.
ers of this section, but owing to the
fact that he is suffering from a severe
cold, contracted in the east, he did not
visit any Of the farms in the valley.
Mr.. Campbell Is . quiet and unas.
suming man, who seems to dislike
publicity. Although perfectly willing
to talk Of his work and even enthusi.
astic in talking Of his plans for the
future he Is loath to talk about him.
self.
H Mr.. Campbell and his associates are
projecting an educational campaign
which is a mammoth undertaking.
1t contemplates among other things
establishing demonstration farms ID
various sections of the United States,
to demonstrate the p%racticability Of
his methods Of soil culture and! CON
servation Of moisture as well as how
to farm in a practical manner by get
ting out Of the ground all that it will
yield when titled in a practical man
ner.
TO Publish Paper.
The project for which a stock com
pany has been formed to promote, also
contemplates the publishing of a pa
per devoted solely to farm topics. Mr.
Campbell says that several pages
will be devoted to correspondence in
answering queries regarding his
method Of soil culture and moisture
conservation and that the rest Of the
paper will be devoted to other sub.
jects interesting to the farmer. The
first issue will probably appear today.
So many queries are already re.
ceived by MI. Campbell regarding his
method that 1t would easily fill the
average farm publication with reading
matter in answering them, SO he is
going to limit the space devoted to
correspondence.
Mr.. Campbell receives queries re.
garding his methods from not only ev-
cry section Of the United States, but
from all quarters Of the globe. where
farming Is an industry. as we'll.
Correspondence School.
Plans are also~being made to con
duct a correspondence school in prac.
teal farming. The present plan OF
|;Mr. Campbell and his associates is to
offer a course consisting Of IL books
with 10 lessons in each book. One
year will be suf1cient to complete the
course.
The.best known authorities in the
country on farming will contribute to
the course, which will be the most
comprehensive and easiest to under.
stand, Of any course in any subject
that has yet been offered.
a limited number of students will
be given instruction in practical
farming at the demonstration farms,
some Of which have already been es.
tablished and fare successful beyond
the fondest expectations Of the pro.
moters.
Mr.. Campbell does not call his
method dry farming He says that
dry farming is a misnomer. Neither
does he term it intensive farming,
since that appellation suggests that 1t
is laborious, when as a matter of fact,
1t does away with drudgery in taking
from the ground all that it will yield.
Scientific Soil Culture.
His name for this method is s'scien-
tific soil culture" Even with this
name he is not exactly satisfied since
the word scientific" to some, suggests
deep study such as is given to astron-
omy and other sciences, when as a
matter Of fact his method is the sim.
plest to learn, and yet the most adj
vanced and economical method of till.
age that is in practice today.
He believes that the man who farms
160 acres of land. In such a manner
that it brings him but q bare living, is
not only robbing himself, but is rob.
bling his children, interfering with the
advancement Of the farming industry
and is robbing others Of what he loses
by not getting all that is possible out
Of the ground.
Demonstration Farms.
In establishing demonstration farms
the company OF which Mr.. Campbell Ii
the head simply asks to be given an
opportunity Of farming a section o
land for five years. guaranteeing t.
; produce in the most unfavorable years
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