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culture work that the wealth of the country has been very 

 materially increased. I shall await the arrival of your 

 book with considerable interest." 



IN SOUTH DAKOTA. 



R. J. Mann, president of the Clark county National 

 Bank, at Clark, S. D., ordered for free distribution among 

 his bank customers 500 of the Campbell Soil Culture Alma- 

 nacs, issued in 1907, and he wrote: 



"I have been studying your literature the last year and 

 am very much interested in it, and this is the cause of my 

 ordering these almanacs. I know, or believe, you are 

 doing a good work and would be glad to see your work go 

 into the farmers' hands, and I hope that distributing 

 these almanacs will prove what you feel and that I believe 

 can be done in this country with good farming." 



W. M. Wiley, manager of the Arkansas Valley Sugar 

 Beet and Irrigated land company, at Holly, Col., writing 

 to Mr. Campbell, said: 



"Although I have never met you I have become greatly 

 impressed with what is called the Campbell system of 

 farming. In 1902 we had to farm the lands under the 

 Amity canal without water, and by carrying out a modi- 

 fied system of your views we succeeded in making a crop 

 practically without irrigation, and it was a good crop, too. 

 This served to attract my attention more than ever to your 

 system. I have told several officials of the Santa Fe Rail- 

 road that the arid west could be better and sooner put into 

 cultivation by following your theories or the practices re- 

 commended by you than by getting the government to 

 spend oceans of money for irrigation works, because no 

 matter how much money was spent in irrigation, the amount 

 of land which the water would cover must necessarily be 



