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land department of the Union Pacific makes the following 

 estimate of the wheat and corn acreage and crops in three 

 counties, the counties mentioned being Adams, Arapahoe, 

 Lincoln and Cheyenne.: 



Wheat. Corn. 



Year. Acreage. Bushels. Acreage. Bushels. 



1905 2,000 30,000 5,000 100,000 



1906 12,000 180,000 12,000 300,000 



1907 35,000 525,000 30,000 750,000 



On the ranch of Kilpatrick Bros., in Chase County, 

 Neb., in 1904, a wheat crop was grown with 30 bushels 

 to the acre, whereas all round, because of a seven months 7 

 drouth, there was total failure of the crop. 



On the Burlington farm in Nebraska, 228 acres under 

 cultivation were handled in 1904 and two subsequent years 

 by two men and nine horses, except harvest time; and in 

 1905 the net profit on the farm was over $4,000 or $11.76 

 per acre on the entire acreage of 340 acres in crops, meadow 

 and pasture. 



We give these various specific reports only as samples 

 of what has been done; but results have been achieved all 

 over the states of the semi-arid region quite as striking. 



ONE EXAMPLE. 



J. D. Clarkson, writing from Greenfield, Kan., tells of 

 the result of work being done there as follows: 



"I was out east of this town looking over some wheat 

 fields and am sending you two samples of wheat as found 

 growing in the same fields not ten feet apart. One of them 

 was growing on ground cultivated by the Campbell sys- 

 tem for two years. This is the second crop. It yielded 

 34 bushels to the acre the first crop. The other sample 

 was taken from land not over ten feet away that has been 

 cultivated by the old method of disking the wheat in the 



