HISTORY OF DRY-FARMING 



they had any knowledge of farming 

 whatsoever, it was of farming in a damp 

 climate. Thus it happened that both 

 their methods and their seeds were totally 

 unsuited to the drought-stricken plains 

 of the Sunflower State. Nevertheless, 

 the best of the colonists remained, and, 

 being taught a bitter lesson by their con- 

 tinual losses, finally changed their meth- 

 ods, adapted themselves to their arid 

 surroundings, and so eventually estab- 

 lished prosperous homesteads. The in- 

 fluence of two men in this State had much 

 to do with concentrating attention upon 

 the possibihties of dry-land farming. 

 The one, Mr. Hardy W. Campbell, of 

 Lincoln, Nebraska, has introduced what 

 is widely known as the "Campbell 

 method" of cultivation throughout the 

 Western States. The other, the late Mr. 

 J. Sterling Morton, the father of Arbor 

 Day, was for some time Secretary of 

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