Show CONQUERING DROUTH BY SCIENCE To Jo T conquer the drouth druth to 11 t convert conert the lie parched r ched praIrie Into Inlo a I garden of ot grain In n short to mako lao eastern Colorado as productive ni M a a n 1 ur valloy This Is time miracle that ft a system of ot scientific soIl Mil culture works work 61 No rain Is IR hIs marvelous en o Them Thero Is la nothing about It and no 10 mystery 18 to It I It i Is simple act once ence It gives I an In opportunity to tolie lie ilo her hor host heat It I U 18 nn an ni observance of tho the law of tf alil only this tills On 01 hm lila hil deathbed an nn old aid farmer a n wise wl o old oh ama toll told loll hit his sons Iona that a 1 treasure was hauled burled somewhere on his imis hil little farm anti farll and 10 that hint as its I they plowed 1111 1 and IUlo worked with wil tho t tO hoo boo to watch out for tor or It Tho The boys boy I p OWl and worked with their I hoc boos hool boosI I I aSS that tho the 50 I tro splendid yield rein from frol their gave thorn t which wh eh was 1 better IIVo limn 11 tho the tress trees urn uro Ul which they thoy newer never turned up imp Under to Campbell 1 system of soil cub cul sl tune ture of or treasure troves roves burled upon Ull n the tIle plum of or lantern coNtent Colorado Nc kl 11 bo b b uncovered It time the of tho n luia III f now no shines I I 1110 worthless except as 18 grazing grating ranches l wll wIl plow and cultivate to 10 this thin scion wil tItle uno system the returns In tl wheat corn orchards alfalfa and amid other cor many moy crops crop Cp f 1 will wi bo be C enormous and Ind will wil In make rako those lands worth 10 0 an 11 acre nere Tho The system y ylem tem which will M produce p such ucb wonderful results resul I Is 18 like Ilko Iko most good things of ot tho the kind quite ulo simple It Il consists of ot plowIng and cultivating nil all Ilia Ilie al 10 farmer who owns this prairie land lad Is I ask Ilk asked cd ed only to 10 go out upen It with wih his plow and turn thu soil sIl to n IL depth of from tour four to 10 eight Inches according ta t tho the nature of ot the tue subsoil If It I left lel lu lit II that condition coalition tho the lund land will crack crock In this arid atmos atmosphere phere When wi the earth then lien thel nil all ni ihu thu hu natural moisture evaporates evaporated quickly Is la a n well known fact tact To avoid that tIne the t ht f firmer inner el U In asked to go 0 over hi hIs land plowed with what Is culled called u a packer Is 18 In tho the shape of a a wheel wheeled ed eti Ill roller roler that lint makes th fresh earth com cent compact pact and secure the tho escape of or tho lie moisture rho Tho packer leaves leves the tho earth so that tha ill all 11 of ot the tha natural moisture turned up by y tho the deep plows Is la held hIu In time ground to nourish I the t 10 train graIn or vegetables that will rIhl 11 bo be sown or planted later inter Ilter Then lIen after ater each rain rall the tha cultivators go so over ocr thIs surface to n a depth of ot not moro more than two t 10 and a I halt half tactics Inches Title Tills must roust b done as quickly us possible after the ruin rain Delay would woul mean that tho lie around would crock crack OH OK h Is I time the case cate In Filch sueh sueha luehn a n climate and RII through thins has IhO crevices tho thi moisture would bo be sucked up by b the th pow powerful powerful erful sun lun ami dry ry sir When tub thIs is II done dona donathe the ground Is ready really for lor the grain grin or whatever Is i desired de an aim R a 1 crop In II tho the thornie ease of corn or ututo a this title light cul cui cultivation cultivation must bo ho kept up between the tho rows but hut of ot cours COUll In the case easo 1180 of v w 1 Ml alt oats and amid 11 alfalfa nothing further ing the line lino Ino can bo be 10 done dol ExperIence l hns line shown hwn that AS 1 a n result of this II culture tho the fertility of or orI lila tho I ho soil null In iii I rid regions has hIl been thUD than doubled The Th Is 19 based balc oti on the known laws of nature on tho ho fact fatt that the tho moisture moves In Iii tho ho toll soil that thal It I run can al be Io Ic made mado more or at lets lees available ta to vegetable life l aol and that capillary attraction than tion ton lifts water to the time surface from below The rite discoverer of o the t hb system Is Prof Proto ProfIt H It W of ot Lincoln NIb Neb and hM ide hi experiment station have he produced largo large larlo larlor r ul Tho ho one lit rit lt Akron ron Colorado out upon lilian the thc plains of Colorado o where here here few tel crops crabs o haw have been n raised Mil anil even the th hardly hanOi alfalfa thrives but poor poorly ly I hots Mi convinced many that lint there are treasures tre upon their ground of or which they the did not Ono Onu On of oC these Is I 1 Vf W Irwin who wino manages a 11 near there and Ili whoso whose wife Is la tho the post postmaster postmaster master mn lr We have been fooled so often by tik schemes that wo we 10 were a n lIttle skeptical at he lie said sahl but now nol nil ni of ot us tie lS who wh have hlo given ven the tho system A J e thor thoro thorough thorough ugh ough test are nrc delighted with wih It I I never produce less thin than 41 43 4 bushels of or wheat to the he nero acre lero under lila system whereas hercl I could produce practically nothing without it It I You see ste So that wo we 10 get the of ot ev cv every 1 cry ery drop droll of ot rain or ci snow that falls tais dur olur during durIn lag ing In f the 1101 year cr under the plan Wo so hold It Itla itIn la tn the ground und use ule It when hen we need It Prof it lx I conducting experiment meat ment stations at II Hill 11 City Jy Iran Kan and In Chime counts count coun NM Neb NIb at as tell as n at a t Akron All of ot the Uio have Iian produced firm fine Al results Near lie tho la lem acres ar under r cultivation with lh tho tIme tern tem ter Railroad men and nd bankers who Iho havo h hiV o watched tho results are aro with It II and there Is now a a general movement to spread ho ROW work The Tha of the tho BurlIngton and aM tho Union Pacific are arc do 10 doIng doIn lag Ing In mill all 11 they can to 1 facilitate tho tue work of ot Prof Prot Campbell Tho The eastern part mart of Col Cot Colorado Colorado orado and ad the plains of Kansas and Ne No Nebraska braska rasha were made mado for tor Wo lie he luve that wo we 0 have he found the solution of how to mako nolo thorn thor yield If it the people who own the Iho lund land In these thuu sections 8 are not nt too tw lazy laz to Rive give Ilvo the tho th system n a 1 fair tall test tet they hey the will vl bo b agreeably yes y es oven astonished at ft the tho results Charles 8 Owen of at Dyer ayers l Colo Cole which h h hl IK Is l about bout 40 43 miles east ell of Denver at an nn altitude of ot f r feet t writes II I 1 had i 49 40 acres of 01 cl old I 1 did not nt Intend to 10 touch hut but when I learned of Qt o othe the tho Campbell system I 1 Immediately put R a team to double disking having no nn other ot lor Implement ent at hand ly Ily J tho the Ihli that lint wa dono 1000 1 had seed coed od corn com 1111 n 4 lister planted the thu Held ordered a I weeder cl r and disk cultivator vator mitor Ilia ho crop was vas wl co so 10 promising that Ulal people from Missouri said Mid that they loft nothing better Ieter behind them thol I 1 Iam am flab EO 50 convinced that wo We 0 ran can nn raise corn cornand and lots tots of ot It II that we have built buit two silos elos each ench elch holding fA r tons lon ta tu take tako care cam cuoC of oC the Iho crops crol and amid h I now plows break breakIng tag Ing up tip about Zt m moro mono for tor next 11 carI nver lost |