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of grazing land, that this system of eliminating the imagin- 

 ary boundary line was developed under our own guidance. 

 Under the old system there was the long series of alternat- 

 ing successes and failures, resulting in an impoverished land 

 and heart broken men and women, for the failures were 

 more numerous than the successes. Here was the birth of 

 scientific soil culture, and here it has had its first and great- 

 est victories. 



But a great deal has actually been done in at least a 

 dozen good states. In eastern Colorado splendid results 

 have been achieved by application of the principles, often 

 imperfectly it is true, yet sufficient to produce good results. 

 In western Kansas and western Nebraska the triumphs 

 have been great. Something has been accomplished in 

 northern Texas, and in Oklahoma and New Mexico near 

 by. In Wyoming and in Montana, in many rich valleys 

 and uplands, the good work is going on. In all these states 

 individual experimenters are accomplishing good results. 

 These are mostly homesteaders and those who have pur- 

 chased railroad lands. Thousands of our 1902 and 1905 

 manuals have found their way into the hands of men who 

 are tilling the soil in these states. They make use of the 

 ideas they have gathered there, and in due time they will 

 come into the full fruition of their labor and studies. 



But the call is also for more detailed information and 

 from further west. Out on the plains of eastern Oregon 

 enterprising and courageous men have taken up the sys- 

 tem and are working it out with results that are astonish- 

 ing to their neighbors. In Washington and California in- 

 terest is being taken in the subject. We have lectured in 

 many states and explained the system and are having calls 

 to go to many of these states for furthei work. 



But the system is of value also in the more favored 



