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seed. When put in scientifically will soon enhance the value of our $10 

 per acre land, to $50 and $100 per acre, and will pay good interest on 

 same at the latter price. The demand is getting greater and the prices 

 higher on alfalfa, and alfalfa seed each year. 



Soil Treatment. 



"Having recently purchased several thousand acres of land close to 

 Limon, I have teams at work now disking the land that is already broken, 

 and will keep packing, disking and harrowing, on 300 acres of same until 

 the month of May, and then sow it to alfalfa; I will also make a good 

 seed bed on a couple of hundred more acres for spring wheat, barley 

 and oats. 



Canadian Field Peas. 



"I have this month sowed about twelve acres of field peas, and will 

 sow about the same number of acres i'n March, and also in April, and 

 perhaps later. I have grown field peas three or four years, but am still 

 experimienting as to the best time to sow and as to the best soil adapted 

 to the field peas. So far I have better success on the heavy soil, than [ 

 have had in the sand land with peas. 



Soil Treatment. 



"In the early spring, I will have several hundred acres broken and 

 packed and luter on will have some summer tilled and packed again; 

 later it will be disked or harrowed and then put to fall wheat or fall 

 rye, so expect something better than the average, and will have a disc 

 going immediately after the harvester, and the stubble ground will be 

 double disked, so as to conserve the moisture, until the ground can be 

 plowed or put to other crops. 



Campbell System. 



"Although there is less than one per cent of the people now using 

 the Campbell system I am sure that the system is O. K., but it is not 

 time to praise the system too high; Prof. Campbell i's still with us. After 

 he has been dead twenty-five or fifty years, the next generation will 

 want to build monuments, and laud the man who made two blades grow 

 where one grew before; helped to make the barren plains blossom like 

 the rose, assisted in increasing the yield of grain, and added to the 

 agricultural products of the world, which has become the largest and 

 most important industry in the world. 



"Fellow citizens, I have been down to the bottom in poverty, have 

 raised a large family. These horny hands have done every kind of physi- 

 cal work to keep the wolf from the door. In my younger days, while I 

 was considered a No. 1 farm hand, and always took the lead in any 

 kind of work, I looked upon farm work as a sort of slavery and almost 

 disgrace, and had a great yearning for city life. 



"When I grew older, I got a taste of city life, with a large family 

 to keep on what I thought was a good salary. I soon got enough of it, 



