Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-20
MULE SHOWED HOW'
Packing ct Earth By Hoofs of
 Animal Taught Lesson.
Starting In 1883 on South Dakots Hcmestead Claim, H. W. Camp bell To-Day Has Profitable
 Farms In Four States.

Lincoln, Neb.-Twenty-fiv years ago, during the dark days" of the west, when every crop failed, and thousands of settlers were returning back east" a discouraged farmer in South Dakota. looking over his ruined field for the last time before trekking back to Vermont. noticed that in the tracks made by his old lame mule, where the soil was packed by the weight of the animal, the wheat had grown strong and tall. As a result of this observation, South Dakota is just now harvesting one of the larg- est wheat crops of any state in the union, and is filled with prosperous fasmers, while the erstwhile diseour aged farmer himself, H. w. Camp bell of this city, is owner of five big wheat farms aggregating 30,0OO acres which produces an average of SC bushels per acre. He is known as the "Bononza Farmer" of the west, and all because a lame mule cramDee across his wheat field one day.
 The good stalks of grain growing in the mule tracks, and surrounded by puny stems. set Campbell to thinking From 1t he evolved aew system oi farming. His neighbors laughed st him and remained poor, while Campbell grew rich. When he wanted new tools with which to farm, according to his new ideas, the farm implement manufacturers made light of his ideas. C,rnnha Y0oda his ,,r- toor. ,.5 +o day they are being manufactured in oGessa, Arad. Hungary. Hyderabad and half dozen cities in the United States.
 When Campbell took up a home stead in Dakota territory, in 1883, all he possessed, besides his family, was a few farming implements, a blow, a wagon, etc, a lame mule and long horned OK. The OK and mule, yoked together, broke the sod and put in the crop of wheat. The rains came, the water fell on the loose sandy soil, sank into the ground and ran off just about as fast as it fell. As a re, suit, when the long, hot days of the sunny summer arrived, the blades of wheat dried up and died.
 Other farmers had similar expert. ences. After several years they de, cided to leave the country, and wrote back home" for funds with which to do so.
 Campbell had been a machine shor foreman in Vermont, and had no one to whom he could write for assistance He was desperate, and was preparing to leave the country, going anywhere But he walked out to look once mere at his burned field. And he no ticed small punches of good wheat His curiosity was aroused He ex anined carefully and found that these punches were growing in the tracks of the old mule.
 What did .it?" he asked himself.
 But he didn't leave the farm. Fol days, however, he asked himself ths question, What did it?' And final ly the answer came to him.
 Tt was the packing of the eartl by the weight of the mule.
 The next year, when Campbell | sowed his wheat, he rolled it with l; ] home made roller for days and days His neighbors laughed at him.
 When the wheat sprouted every ker nel came up, and so did that plantet by his neighbors, who again laughed at the fool Vermont machinist whC thinks he knows how to farm"
 Then came the long, hot days, an; the neighbors' wheat dried up anc burned.
 But Campbel's didn't. His field were green. and in the time of har
 vest it was found that he had raised the biggest crop that country eve saw. Campbell's theories had beel ! proven, and the next year every farm
 CT in that country packed his whea
 ground down at the bottom of th' | furrOW