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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 "Gampjjcll 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 



