CAMPBELL'S SOIL CULTURE MANUAL 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



WORLD WIDE FAME OF THIS WORK. 



It is a matter of genuine pride and satisfaction that there 

 has come to be, even though it is after years of waiting, 

 almost world wide recogniton of the truth of what we have 

 been teaching as to the proper method of conducting farm 

 operations on the semi-arid soils. Of course it is a matter 

 which, from our standpoint, cannot be explained, why far- 

 mers and students generally have been so slow to see the 

 truth, but we make due allowance for the momentum of 

 centuries of conservatism. 



But if recognition of the truth comes apparently very 

 late it seems to be coming with added force and greater 

 meaning. Within recent months we have had evidence of 

 a desire to know more of the system coming from far off 

 lands on the other side of the world, and there is a demand 

 for some information on the subject in many countries. 

 The system of scientific soil culture has forced itself to the 

 attention of many of the best students and writers of the 

 country. In the Century Magazine for July, 1906, there 

 appeared a discussion of the whole subject by John L. 

 Cowan, of Albuquerque, N. M. In the World's Work the 

 same season appeared another similar article by Herbert 

 Quick, the talented writer. William E. Curtis, a famous 

 correspondent writing for the Chicago Record-Herald, told 

 at length in July, 1905, of the work being done by the 

 Campbell method in Kansas and elsewhere. The western 

 newspapers have been filled with information on the sub- 



