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EARLY DOUBLE DISKING 



Mr. Fred Newrock, Weldpna, Colorado, November 3, 1915: "I want to 

 thank you for your timely advice last spring on late corn planting, for if it had 

 not been for your encouraging answer to my letter, I probably would not have 

 put in a crop last spring at all, consequently would have been 1,500 bushels of 

 corn short of what I am. I double disked my ground early last spring and was 

 getting ready to plant corn at the usual time, May tenth, but right at that time it 

 kept on raining and freezing and I could not get the crop in, the next couple 

 of weeks did not bring any favorable changes and talk was loud and general 

 that it was useless to plant corn this year because it would not have time to 

 mature. In the meantime I got your letter, then I harrowed twice, my field 

 was nice and clean, and about June third, against the solemn advice and ridicule 

 of my neighbors, I suddenly decided to plant all my 65 acres, so I listed till 

 the eighth the old ground and then surface planted ti'll the twelfth some spring 

 breaking I had. Well I never saw anything grow any prettier; it made some of 

 them take notice. I had little trouble with the weeds and my corn is thoroughly 

 matured, while some of my neighbors' crops though planted May tenth, partly 

 taken by the weeds are not well matured, therefore I am in favor of early 

 double disking the ground and plant in June." 



GOOD FARMING BEFORE PLANTING 



Mr. J. M. Ralston, Oberlin, Kansas, April 14, 1915: "I am anxious to 

 cooperate with you in your work this year. Your system is certainly helping 

 this country. 



"I sowed alfalfa on the land I summer tilled under your direction two 

 years, and it is the best in the country. 



"I am a great advocate of doing farming before the crop is planted. 

 I am convinced your work is all O. K., the fault is with the farmer that is 

 doing the work. Enough said." 



ON WELL FITTED GROUND 



MR. ARTHUR SAUM, Norton, Kansas, October 9, 1914: "The millet was 

 planted July thirteenth and harvested September fifth, and threshed 35 bushels 

 per acre of nice clean seed. I am more than pleased with the late planted 

 corn. It is certainly fine. It is the best piece of corn in the country. 



"The cane is higher than a man's head and all seeded. I am strong for 

 this late planted stuff where the soil has been properly spring tilled. You 

 are certainly doing a great work." 



EASTERN COLORADO REJOICES 



MR. H. C. HOCH, lumber dealer, Yuma, Colorado, June 10, 1915: "East- 

 ern Colorado is fast coming to the front as a farming section. Your untiring 

 efforts to teach our farmers the best methods of tilling the soil and of keeping 

 the moisture in it has been one of the main reasons that big results have been 

 obtained. 



"I might mention the names of a great many farmers that have taken 

 up your methods of soil culture with good results, but will only name a few: 

 G. W. Hahn, Jas. Moyer, Jas. Jacobson, Wensel Black, Thor Olson, Chas 

 Chrismer. These have grown some wonderful crops on land farmed by your 

 methods. 



"Stay with it, Mr. Campbell; let the good work go on. We are not the 

 only ones that appreciate your work." 



GOOD RESULTS WITH CANE 



F 3 ^' MR. GEO. B. THOMPKINS, Sterling, Colorado, October 3, 1915. "On July 

 third, I put in a piece of spring tilled ground to cane and it was six feet high 

 September tenth when I cut it, and it will make five tons to the acre against 

 two on ground planted to cane May twenty-fifth. You have been a big help 

 to me this year by sending me better farming information. I believe in early 

 and thorough, continued spring tillage and the necessary later planting." 



