EXPERIMENT STATIONS AND DRY-FARMING 367 
and within the foothills of the Great. Plains area. 
From the summer of 1894 until 1900 experiments 
were conducted on this farm. The experiments were 
not based upon any definite theory of reclamation, 
and consequently the work consisted largely of the 
Fig. 99. Excursionists to dry-farm demonstration, Juab Co., Utah; sub- 
station, 1903. 
comparison of varieties, when soil treatment was the 
all-important problem to be investigated. True, in 
1898, a trial of the ‘‘Campbell method” was under- 
taken. By the time this Station had passed its 
pioneer period and was ready to enter upon more 
systematic investigation, it was closed. Bulletin 
59 of the Colorado Station, published in 1900 by 
J. E. Payne, gives a summary of observations made 
on the Cheyenne Wells substation during seven years. 
This bulletin is the first to deal primarily with the 
experimental work relating to dry-farming in the 
