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CHAPTER XLIV. 



SOME HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT. 



The Northwestern Miller, in issues in November, 1906> 

 contained three very complete and satisfactory articles 

 upon the Campbell system written by John L. Cowan, in 

 which an outside view of the work was given, and from 

 the standpoint of an investigator coming to the subject 

 without prejudice. Below is given some portions of this 

 largely for the bit of history which Mr. Cowan wove into 

 the narrative: 



There has been no more important agricultural develop- 

 ment within recent years than the sudden rise in popular 

 approval of the Campbell System of Scientific Soil Culture 

 or, as the public prefers to call it, "Dry Farming." Dur- 

 ing two months of the past summer, it was given more 

 magazine and newspaper publicity than in the twenty years 

 before, through which the originator of the system toiled 

 to bring it to perfection and fought for recognition. 



The one thing that has finally compelled endorsement 

 is its results. It has "delivered the goods," and few people 

 will refuse to credit the evidence of their own senses. Con- 

 sequently, the great trans-continental railroad systems own- 

 ing land grants have vied with ten thousand land agents in 

 their efforts to inform the public about this new system of 

 farming on the "dry lands" without irrigation. 



The National Department of Agriculture and the vari- 

 ous state agricultural colleges have not endorsed or given 

 official recognition to the Campbell system. They have 



