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to plant growth, as well as its constant excess over the 

 others. The writer has found the soil in Campbell's fields 

 moist enough to be squeezed into a ball, while identical 

 soil fifty feet away, cultivated by ordinary methods, would 

 blow away in dust when released. 



The Campbell method is spoken of as the salvation of 

 the dry belt. The work is an enormous one, that of chang- 

 ing the traditional methods of plowing and harrowing and 

 tilling of a whole farming population. The wonder is, 

 not that his progress has been so slow, but that in the ten 

 years of his active apostolate (for such his life has been) 

 *his useful and patient man has accomplished so much. 



RESULTS DECLARED TO BE REMARKABLE. 



William E. Curtis, traveler and author, went to Hill 

 City, Kansas, in the summer of 1905, and from there 

 wrote a two-column article for the Chicago Record-Herald 

 in which he said: 



What is known as the Campbell method of "dry farm- 

 ing" is being practiced on the semi-arid plains of western 

 Kansas and eastern Colorado with remarkable success. 

 The results accomplished on several model farms, under 

 the direction of the inventor, discoverer or promoter 

 whichever you prefer to call him are remarkable, and 

 are entitled to the respect of every one who is interested 

 in the development of the high, dry plains between the 

 Rocky mountains and the Missouri river. 



Any one who has doubts of the practicability of the 

 Campbell system should go to Hill City, Kansas, and com- 

 pare the crops on the Pomeroy farm with those upon the 

 farms which surround it, for the fields of wheat, corn, oats, 

 potatoes and everything else that is growing will be four 

 or five times as great as will be the harvest on the other 

 side of the fences. 



