CHAPTER VI 



THE CAMPBELL SYSTEM 



THE Campbell system of scientific soil 

 culture, or as it is more commonly 

 called the Campbell method of dry-farm- 

 ing, originated with Mr. Hardy W. 

 Campbell of Lincoln, Nebraska. Camp- 

 bell has done much to popularize dry- 

 farming, but he must be ranked as an 

 agricultural evangelist rather than as an 

 experimenter. Both on the public plat- 

 form and in the pages of his periodicals 

 his statements at times are somewhat 

 loose and misleading. And to contend 

 that the Campbell system is the sole 

 method of dry-farming is of course ab- 

 surd. Nevertheless it is not just to dis- 

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