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infinitesmal compared to the vast area to be cultivate J; 

 but that if they would adopt your plan and establish some 

 model farms under your direction something could be done 

 in cultivating the country. I should like very much to 

 meet and have a talk with you. I should like particularly 

 to get the U. S. government interested in your methods.'' 



BIG RESULTS. 



J. P. Pomeroy, of Colorado Springs, under date of Sep- 

 tember 10, 1904, writes to C. E. Wantland, Denver: "We 

 cultivate entirely under Professor Campbell's plan. This 

 season the wheat crop in our section was practically a fail- 

 ure, which was the result of the failure of our farmers to put 

 in their crops in time, and to properly cultivate; this was 

 clearly proven by the fact that on our farm we raised over 

 forty bushels per acre, and from less than one-half bushel 

 of seed planted. Surely the time must soon come, when 

 our people will have realized that this system absolutely 

 assures the production of regular crops every year through 

 western Kansas and Nebraska, as well as eastern Colorado." 



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) this useful 

 and patient man has succeeded in doing so much. Herbert 

 Quick, in World's Work. 



