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Campbell's 1902 Soil Culture Manual. 



adjoining farms cultivated by the usual method of farming. In 1902^ 

 other crops will be grown on ground thus treated. 



The general plan of our cultivation on the Pomeroy Model Farm is 

 exactly as explained in the different chapters of this volume. Many new 

 and important experiments will be worked out there during the coming 

 season, which we are sure will add greatly to the discoveries and knowl- 

 edge already made and obtained on this invaluable subject. 



The illustrations shown in cuts Nos. 14, 15 and 16 very clearly dem- 

 onstrate the value of our plan of growing and developing trees. We have 

 laid out with considerable care a part of the farm for buildings, setting 

 apart a parcel of land for a garden and small fruits, with the orchard in 

 the rear; the object being to create here an ideal farm home. 



To our mind, there is nothing that means more to all of us as a 

 neighborhood, county, state or nation than the increasing improvement of 

 our farm homes, and making them attractive and pleasant. The influ- 

 ences that go out from such homes for good are felt in many ways. In 

 the attractiveness of the farm home for the wife and children, there is 

 found the primal creation and nurture of the most valuable mental gifts, 

 and the dearest affections. In the orchards, and the shade trees, and in the 

 flowers and shrubs that adorn a home are to be found the objects to which 

 the heart is attached with more tenacity and tenderness than the domain 

 of lands 



In our experience thus far, it is clear that in five years time one may 

 grow up shade and ornamental trees, as well as fruit trees, to such an ex- 

 tent as to yield beauty, comfort and profit, which largely embody all the 

 factors that are required to make the ideal farm home. Consider for a 

 moment that the bh ak prairie may be transformed into ideal farm homes 

 in the short space of five years. Nothing can add more to the wealth of 

 the country and the value of our farm lands than such improvements 

 created generally over our western prairies. We have in mind an instance 

 in the early settlement of Eastern Nebraska which was related to us by 

 one of the parties coni erned, that illustrates the love of the average man 

 for tret s. A man from Ohio with a reasonable amount of means had 

 come to Nebraska to buy a farm. He was offered one with good buildings 

 and other improvements, Excepting there was no orchard or shade trees. 

 The price asked was $15.00 per acre, but he purchased the farm adjoining, 

 on which there were no better buildings, and the land was of precisely the 

 same character, but with an orchard of five acres and a liberal number of 

 shade and ornamental trees around the buildings of about eight years' 

 growth, and the purchaser paid just twice the price of the other farm — 

 paying, as you observe, as mu< h for the fruit and shade trees as he paid 

 for the land and all the other improvements. This may have been an ex- 

 treme case, but it shows quite clearly how dominant is the love in all of 

 us for such adornments of the hom.e as nature gives us in beautiful trees. 



