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tions only hint at the reasons. H. W. Campbell, 
however, has done much to popularize the subject 
of dry-farming and to prepare the way for others. 
His persistence in his work of gathering facts, writing, 
and speaking has done much to awaken interest in 
dry-farming. He has been as ‘‘a voice in the wil- 
derness” who has done much to make possible the 
later and more systematic study of dry-farming. 
High honor should be shown him for his faith in the 
semiarid region, for his keen observation, and his 
persistence in the face of difficulties. He is justly 
entitled to be ranked as one of the great workers in 
behalf of the reclamation, without irrigation, of the 
rainless sections of the world. 
The experiment stations. 
The brave pioneers who fought the relentless 
dryness of the Great American Desert from the 
memorable entrance of the Mormon pioneers into 
the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847 were not 
the only ones engaged in preparing the way for the 
present day of great agricultural endeavor. Other, 
though perhaps more indirect, forces were also at 
work for the future development of the semiarid 
section. The Morrill Bill of 1862, making it possible 
for agricultural colleges to be created in the various 
states and territories, indicated the beginning of a 
public feeling that modern methods should be applied 
