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Mr. Campbell has been working in North Dakota, South 

 Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, for twenty years or more 

 trying to induce farmers to adopt his plan of "soil culture," 

 as he calls it, and everywhere he has been, from the James 

 river in the north to the Arkansas, he has been equally 

 successful in producing without irrigation the same results 

 that are usally expected with irrigation with compara- 

 tively little more expense. There is no secret about it. 

 The whole thing is simply the exercise of care and patience, 

 and any man of ordinary intelligence can work it as well as 

 a college professor could if he only learns how. 



The Pomeroy farm certainly proves the truth of Mr. 

 Campbell's theories, or else he is a wizard. The orchard, 

 five years old, is equal to any I have ever seen; the hedges 

 that divide the fields and surround the garden are as high 

 as the head of a man; the vegetable garden, the berry 

 bushes, the flowers and the foliage are equal to any that 

 you can find upon the best irrigated farm in California; 

 while the wheat, corn and potatoes are simply perfect. 



The farm across the road looks skinny and shabby; 

 the gaps oetween the rows of corn; the bald spots in the 

 wheat, and the feeble poatoes look as if a conspiracy had 

 been set up to furnish as striking a contrast as possible. 

 From one field as Mr. Campbell says, he expects to har- 

 vest fifty-six bushels of wheat to the acre by his system. 

 On the other side of the fence, where the ordinary meth- 

 ods have been used, it will not pan out more than seven 

 or eight bushels, and it is the same soil and the same 

 rainfall. 



ESSENTIALLY SCIENTIFIC FARMING. 



John L. Cowan, writing in the Century Magazine for 

 July, 1906, gave something of what had been done, and ne 

 said: 



