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10. Begin harvesting rather early and remove the crop from the field 

 promptly. 



11. Use machinery of large capacity. 



12. Read and study books, bulletins, magazines and periodicals deal- 

 ing with dry farming and with agriculture in general. 



Don'ts. 



1. Don't neglect details. 



2. Don't expect heavy crops, but make up for the yields by cultiva- 

 ting extensive areas with machinery of large capacity. 



3. Don't expect every year to be a banner year; bad seasons will 

 come. 



4. Don't expect to succeed without deep plowing. 



5. Don't expect to succeed without frequent cultivation. 

 5. Don't sow or plant thickly. 



7. Don't be too quick to lay the blame upon the soil, or the weather, . 

 it may be your fault. 



II. ADDRESS ON SOIL CULTURE. 



By H. W. Campbell, Bethany, Nebraska. (Abstract of address given 

 at the Denver Congress.) 



Twenty-seven years ago, I landed in what is now the north part of 

 South Dakota. I have spent that entire twenty-seven years in tilling the 

 soil and studying its conditions. What we want is demonstration farms. 

 We want them established along the railroad lines, and I hope the time may 

 come, and in the near future, when we may see the establishment in each 



Demonstration Farms. 



county of our western states, of a demionstration farm where the faarmers 

 can come and see, with their own eyes, what to do and what may be- 

 come of it. 



An incident which occurred at Holdedge, Nebraska, involves a great 

 many good points. 



A gentleman there had become considerably interested and rented a 

 piece of land across the railroad from what is known as the Burlington 

 farm. In 1903 he summer tilled it. I followed the work very carefully. I 

 was there frequently and aided as best I could. He put his crop in in the 

 fall. Nineteen hundred and four is not the best year we have had. 



Acreage yields — Soil Treatment. 



This gentleman got 48 bushels of wheat p€r acre. He was quite en- 

 thusiastic. He hoped to carry out the plan thoroughly and followed hr^ 

 harvester with a disk. This is what we urge. We urge it persistently. 

 As soon as he had finished, the thresher came along and threshes his 

 crops. Possibly 10 days after the crop was cut and after this disking was 

 done he commenced his plowing, plowing about eight inches deep, and 

 followed his plow with the sub-surface packer, which he borrowed from 



