THIRD ANNUAL SESSIONS 



Cheap Texas Land. 



"West Texas is just as well off iii the number of acres and quality 

 of land available, but Texas makes her homesteaders pay for it — if you 

 can call it paying for land that you can acquire at from a dollar an 

 acre up to $3, with forty years to pay for it at three per cent interest. 

 Most of the people who buy it find that after the first year they can 

 sell out for enough to pay off their debts to the state and go back to the 

 old home and have considerable spending money — but they don't sell — 

 they don't want to go back home — they have found a newer and better 

 one. 



Experimental Stations. 



"The United States government maintains demonstration farms at 

 Amarillo and Dalhart, both in the 'dry farm' district. H. W. Campbell — 

 some call him the father of the dry farming method — maintains a sta- 

 tion at Midland, and the demonstrations have been most remarkable and 

 have resulted in great good to the people. A recent test there made 

 with an augur, showed moisture down to a depth of four feet — as far 

 as the augur would reach — from within a few inches of the top, while 

 a few yards distant over on the railroad righ of way, where the soil had 

 not been cultivated in any manner, there was nothing but dry sand the 



Campbell System. 



full length of the augur. Over half a bale of cotton to the acre was 

 raised at Midland this year by the Campbell system. 



"In Valentine Valley, west of El Paso, a little over a hundred miles, 

 experiments have been carried on most successfully by private individ- 

 uals; Mr. Campbell has offered to demonstrate that he can grow any- 

 thing that is raised anywhere else in Texas in this locality just as suc- 

 cessfully as it is grown elsewhere in the state, and they are arranging 

 to give him a tract for a demonstration farm. H. L. Applegate has car- 

 Experiment Farms. 



ried on some successful experiments in the Valentine Valley and, judg- 

 ing from the success he has had on small areas, he figures that the 

 valley will easily accommodate 250,000 people and that it will yield an- 

 nually $40,000,000 worth of products. He submits his figures on the 

 basis of what he has accomplished on a small scale. He says: 



Results Estimated. 



" 'Allowing one-half the valley land to be agricultural, we have about 

 750,000 acres of table land. Suppose that at some future time 200,000 

 acres of this land are planted in beans, 300,000 acres in sugar beets, 

 100,000 acres in wheat and 100,000 in oats or other forage crops while 

 the other 50,000 acres are devoted to gardens, orchards, shade trees and 

 public roads. 

 Beans. 



'"I will begin with the beans. It was shown last year that ?45 

 worth of beans could be grown on one acre. Taking one-half that 



