Show DRY FARMING A Western West rn Tillers of the s Bear Testimony at Billings This Week W ek f Lincoln Oct 23 Western railroad land banking and business Interests ts are planning to get together and to tomake tomake make effective resistance to the doctrine doc doctrine doctrine trine which is being preached to farm fann ers era In the middle and eastern States that nothing nou to t the ing movement movement Eastern East rn dispatches tell tellof tellof of ot a ai systematic s tem plan of discrediting ds r What Wha the western farmers have have done rind wholesale misrepresentation of ac actual actual conditions ns In the tho dry The Thc people of t the west will insist upon fair fairplay play pIny for or their section At At the Billings Dry Diy Farming congress to be held next week there wll will be men from twenty states of ot the west who will give testimony as to the success success ot of modem modern methods of scientific sol soil cul culture culture culture ture In transforming the deserts Into tn o farms They will show that the su cess has not come because of any change of climate or different condi condl conditions conditions of rainfall and winds as claimed by some Investigators nor have they been lIeen dependent upon the importation of ot new drouth resisting plants The success has come through a better understanding un understanding understandIng of the principles of soil til tn tillage tillage lage with a view to securing greater fertility by a n right physical condition As the result of or this tills work thousands of ot acres have been made to yield good good crops where It was supposed no crops could be grown In the central part of Nebraska splendid results have been beon secured on In n a farm tann In part maintained main maintained maintained by the Burlington system where experiments conducted for six years yeats have shown wonderful results This farm Is under direction of ot H W V Camp Campbell Campb Campbell bell b ll the father lather of dry farming who resides re resides i sides here Mr Campbell has just re returned returned returned turned from tho the Panhandle of ot Texas where he directs dire ts work on 01 two to big farms and in a region of ot very low rain rainfall rainfall fall he has magnificent crops now growing He has also just returned from North Dakota where he Inspected ted crops on a large farm fann where soil cul culture culture culture ture methods are being tried He ope operates operate operates rates rate a farm near Medicine Hat under authority of the th Alberta government and good results are ire reported there All AU Allover Allover over the dry farming area the principles principles ples pies which have been jeen popularized by Mr Ir Campbell and aud others are declared to tobe tobe tobe be making good It is learned that In Iowa and other states state advantage Is being taken of ot re recent recent recent cent utterances by Secretary Wilson and arid others who are supposed to have expert knowledge on all farming Wil Wilson Wilson son Is quoted as ali saying that the th system sy tem I of ot dry farming is 18 wrong in principle and destructive to the soil and that I the tho right way to solve the problem of farming the dry lands Is to Introduce plants Wilson s quoted as declaring that the methods of ot tillage which have become common in inthe Inthe inthe the dry regions will ruin the soil and make malte growing of ot crops impossible Real estate owners In fn other states where dry farming is not followed arc are making use of ot these statements and the official reports to injure the reputation of ot the western states as farming places They Thy are pointing to these 0 reports and telling the farmers that there can be beno beno beno no general farming In the dry countries cot o I At the coming Dry Farming congress a good many of the western farmers will Insist that this misrepresentation of th the western conditions shall cease and that the western farmers be given full credit for their accomplishments A vast educational work has been bep carried on the past years year yearby by which the western Yc tern formers f ers have ba vt ben been be n ta to give h e to meth moth methods motho metho o ds s of tillage with a view vi w to Increasing In fertility by saving the moisture and keeping the ground packed Reports of from fifty to bushels of wheat and d other ot er crops In tn proportion ore re common where the best method are fe followed But the farmers tanners believe beHeye that only a beginning has been made and they resent the disposition on the part the th agricultural a department dep t es ex x p r to belittle b work Vork |