The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-28
CAMPBELL
FARMS PAY
Dollars and Gents Argue for
Strict Observance Of Soil
Culture Methods

say about IT," said Prof, II. W.
Campbell the soil culture man, OF
Lincoln, Neb,, in speaking yesterday
afternoon to an acquaintance OF re-
suits obtained. ITS simply farm
ing to get the biggest crops whether
the country is dry or not" Prof.
Campbell came in yesterday after
noon from Plainylow whore he has
been looking after the demonstra-
ton farm he is installing there and
was on his way to points on the
Texas & Pacific where he is to put
in another farm,
People get the idea" continued
Mr.. Campbell, that this system Of
soil culture is something that is to
be used as an expedient in dry wealth
err, and that when there is rain
enough, they don't have to follow the
system, That's only partly right. OF
course you can make crops some of
the time, much of the time, perhaps,
by the ordinary methods, but--you
won't make the same crops in any
year that you would have made II
this system had been followed.
A Convincing Contrast.
Last year at Ray, on the Burling-
ton in eastern Colorado, one field OF
wheat cultivated strictly according
to my system yielded over sixty
eight bushels OF wheat to the acre.
The rest of tho wheat in the country
around there ran from five to twelve
bushels per acre. At the North
platte state experiment station in
Colorado they raised siXty-two bush
els of sixty-four pound wheat to the
acre on field cultivated according
to this system and other wheat on
the same kind OF ground cultivated
according to ordinary methods yield
ed ten to fifteen bushels. 1t Is a
question Of dollars and cents and
know that farmers throughout this
country will eventually come to 1t,
VIII Grow All Crops.
Although wheat is the crop most
spoken Of in connection with Camp
bell farming enterprises, all other
crops that are grown in the country
profit by the same treatment and at
Plainview, Mr.. Campbell is planning
to raise cotton, corn, sugar beets,
perhaps, and all other crops in which
the farmers of the country are inter-
esIed. But he believes that wheat
Is the great crop for this country and
he believes that in time it will be
recognized as the staple product o.
the Panhandle. Perhaps the fact
that Mr.. Campbell has had more to
do with wheat than with any other
one product has influenced his pref
erence, but he has also given much
attention to other crops and his
opinion is accordingly important.
Let the Ground Breathe.
"There are some things about soil
culture that have not yet been SCI
entifically proved but am sure of
them from my own experiments. l
am perfectly satisfied that certain
elements necessary to plant growth
are prepared as the ground needs
them. The ground Is refreshed every
year and the system which produces
the biggest crops is the system that
best enables the ground to refresh
itself. My surface packer Is useful
for many reasons and one of these Is
that it helps in refreshing. IL leaves
the surface OF the ground loose for
breathing. Air in right quantities
is just as important under the ground
as 1t is on top and plants will suffer
If they can't get it, The sub-surface
packer also furnishes a root bed so
that the stalks can make strong
root growth. This firm root bed in
creases the capillary attraction and
so draws the moisture up from below
as it is needed. There isn't any part
of the system that is unimportant
and the fields that are following out
the system strictly are the sure
proofs Of it,"
! Some idea OF the demands which
| are being made upon Mr.. Campbell's
, time by people who are taking up
his scientific sell culture may be
! gathered from his statement yester-
day that he can hardly make arrange
/ ments to fill all his dates this sum-
/ mer. He is heading movement for
= the establishment Of chain OF farms
all through the "semi-arid' belt west
of the hundredth meridian from Da-
kota to Texas. The farm he will
establish on the Texas Pacific is the
southernmost of the stations now in
this summer he Is wanted to establish