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tions onl}^ 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 fcjr his faith in the 

 semiarid region, for his keen observation, and his 

 persistence in the face of cUfficulties. 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 perhajjs more indirect, forces were also at 

 work for the future development of the semiarid 

 section. The Morrill Bill of 1862, making it ])ossible 

 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 



