The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-05-09

the production of wheat and Camp
bell went to New York to solicit the
aid of New York bankers. He first
approached ]. P. Morgan, and largely
through the patriotism and enthus-
iasm of Mr.. Morgan, was financed by
four of the largest banks in New
York city, who also took up the en-
terprise purely through patriotic mo-
tives.
Work was started in Montana in
| the summer of 1918 and the first
crop of the new company was des-
troyed by the unprecedented drought
of 1919. The following two years
were but little better and the New
York bankers, having fulfilled their
agreements with the government and
being more or less discouraged with
farming in Montana, sold the enter
prise to Campbell, who, having al
ways been a farmer and having faith
| in the future of Montana, assumed
the responsibilities and obligations
of the Montana Farming corpora
ton. 1t was most unfortunate that
the New York bankers should have
had their farming experience in Mon
tana during the period of the states
most severe drought, as the follow
ing year was profitable one for the
new company. Campbell is more
satisfied than ever after two years
of operation that the best place to
raise winter wheat is in southern
Montana and feels that there is
good future for the northern part of
the state if variety of winter wheat,
can be developed which will stand the
severe winters.
Campbell says that farming is the
biggest industry of them all and re-
quires just as much executive abil-
ity and resourcefulness as our largest
manufacturing industries. People
have had the wrong idea in regard
to farming and have not appreciated
the hard work and effort which it
takes to make farming success. He
believes in cooperation and is work
ing out a plan whereby his men will
participate with him. He says from
his own personal experience there
is absolutely no need of constant
strife between capital and labor, as
ninety-five per cent of all men are
reasonable, if approached in the pro-
per manner and are treated fairly.
Montana is recovering fast from its
period of hard times. The next five
years are going to be good years, as
we are in the cycle of the greatest
precipitation.
There are but two kinds of farm
ing left in the United States under
the present economic conditions; the
very small farm, on which the farm
err and his family do all the work
and have no payroll, or the large
farm, operated by power machinery
with large tractors, with skilled OPP
orators and the entire project oper-
ated as a manufacturing industry.
This makes it possible to compete
with the skilled labor in the city and
is opening up new field for skilled
mechanics, namely, the tractor en-
gineer. The farms in the United
States will need at least one mil
lion such skilled men in the next ten
years. AS evidence of Campbell's
faith in Montana, his company, now
known as the Campbell Farming cor
poration, has leased $4,000 addition
al acres in Montana and expect to
plant Is, 900 acres to flax this spring.
Their present schedule calls for 65,-
900 acres in 1925, when they hope to
produce one million bushels of
grain.
Many deep thinking men in the
United States believe that Campbell's
idea of consolidated farms and oper-
ating them as manufacturing plants
with the aid of skilled workmen is
going to mean new era in agricul-
ture. Campbell is so certain of this
belief that he is spending all of his
time and most of his resources on the
plan. He firmly believes in cooper
alive marketing on basis whereby