The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1910-05-05
S moke Talk Inter ests Large Crowd Of Citzens--
The Major ras .ven CampbeIrs Methods
Successful fry-out-M. O. Boz Talks

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The smoke talk at the Commercial
Club "Wednesday night was one of the
most important meetings yet held. A
large crowd of business men attended
and listened to an unusually interest
ing address on dry subject. The
Major has given the question of the
Campbell system Of dry farming care
full study and has tried some Of Mr..
CampbeWs experiments with marked
success. He is perhaps better quail
flied to talk on this subject than any
other man in this part Of the state.
The Major stated that great strides
had been made in scientific farming
during the past twenty years. Before
that time the farmers plowed the
land, sowed the seed and harvested
the crops in about the same way that
the work was done in the days of
Christ. '.,
Mr.. Murphy believes that the Agri.
cultural colleges are doing vast
amount of good. The North Dakota
Agricultural College alone by scienti-
fc experiments, has increased the
yield OF wheat in four years from 10
to rs IL bushels per acre. BY scienti-
fic methods, there is no trouble in in
creasing the fertility of the soil from
20 to 500 per cent: .n
II the farmers prosper, We business
men prosper. We should make 4
careful study of scientific methods
Of farming and urge our farmer
friends to do likewise. .... If ~,
Mr.. Murphy thinks that Campbell
has done more to open tho eyes Of thu
people in the semi,arid country than
any other man. At the present time
be e employed BY the Union Pacific
to lecture and give experiments. at q
salary OF $4,000 year. i
Campbell began farming in South
Dakota twenty years ago and be-
cause be did not employ, the proper
methods, failed. He has since dug
Into the question. AMI now, be Knows
tn HsaS61. >.......,. -
Campbell proves by his hook that
1STinches 81 rainfall IL better than 50
inoea: THIS moisture. however muat
be stored in the soil. '":..'
We can conserve water IN the soil
just the same as we can in jug, at
ter corking it up. ::
The average farmer believes that
he can Get . crop II We saay 81 tho
rain and At the right TINA Win -
Campbell method dry farming, It
does not matter much when the rain
comes. nor how little:
Mr.. Murphy tells of driving past the
Winter farm west OF Mtnot. He has
seen the man in charge blowing the
land, and letting it lie without har-
rowing for many days. That farmer
probably does not realize that by so
doing he allows STUART of water to
evaporate from every square foot of
the soil every "a hours. The farmer
instead of blowing the entire field
should harrow we'll, after each half
days OF blowing.
Farmers should not 60 home at
noon, until they have narrowed what
they plowed that forenoon" IL one Of
Mr. Murphy's statements.
The speaker told of the Campbell
experiments carried on by Ross Mar
tin, a prominent Powers Lake farmer.
Martin was cashier In hank TN hs
came to North Dakota, and had never
had any farming experience, but he
Immediately eomneneel q study Dc
scientific methods with the result
that be has 5soeme the foremost TAR
mer in that part Of the: ouuAty. he
tried but forty, acres the nrat year
under the Aompbeu 4, SyNeN. T01o
~ In IT, spring Of. 1908. He hisc1sa-
az rod Ae9s1 - : sulhy plsv A.
p3oxsa r - sigAt ma : IAN
inchss 4ssp. He. thene:went over II
with q surface packer, an imp,ennens
something IKE tive lisss together
with . 6alL sdes nhts packs s6ewn
- loose I'll armiy - ~ ssbssn and
also packs Il laterally. eAfseswaFds
he narrowed this land we'll e gel q
fine dust mulch on the surface, and
after each rain from then IN Septem-
Der he narrowed the land. In all the
summer he narrowed the land SIX
times. In the spring of 1909, he dou-
ble-disced it to let the air get to the
soil, for to get good crops, air, heat,
moisture and sunshine are necessary.