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The Guymon Herald.
Fifteenth Year.
Guymon, Beaver County, 0. T., Thursday, July 27, 1905.
No. 18.
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guymon.
oklahoma.
.Section &. Township 5. Ran ire u.
C. E. SIMPSON
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Stair Work and Office fixture*
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OI1VMON. O.T.
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Dealers In
Beaver County
Dirt.
Also Kansas and Texaa |*a<C.
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Wild Horses.
HpeiUing of th- wild horn* nuissno* in
Southwestern Texas, tt « Ssn Antonio
xpros* says: 8tockui.ii of Houtt and
liKi Blsnoo oouuliex, in the wtcni nsrt
i'f the *taie, fot •••versl years have been
TiiiK to K**t rid of* hig hand of wild
i> raes that ii habit the extreme north
ti tern part of the state and are the
cauie of eudltwa trouble It is claimed
that there are at leant 4 000 head in the
numerous hand* that roam that section
aud every horse that ouce gets loose adda
to the number It is claimed that inare*
even break away from fenced pasture*
when the call of the wild come* from the
atalhon leading one of these bands, aud
once they get in one of these wild bnnchea
tl ey are hopelessly lost and become as
wild ss the worst of them KffurU to
rouud up theae horses have resulted in •
few hundreds being captured, but it is
claimed the herds are increasing uotwith
standing theae efforts. A nunib- r of big
-stock men in the western part of the stats
have had ao many losses that they are
openly advocating that theae wild horses
be killed off and that a hunt be organised
t have them ahot, aa the only practicable
method of Uling that section of this
eoiiatart m<. Indeed, it is claimed
that several < uttVi have already instruct
ed thsir uteu to shoot these horses wheu
ever found. The new stock Association
orgauized at Hay den last week has under
consideration the matter of asking the
state board o. stock inspection commis-
sioners for permission to organize a
geueral hunt to wage a war of extermina-
tion on these animals.—Kansas City
Journal.
It was only a few years ago
that similiar conditions existed
in Beaver county and adjacent
territory. Wild horses were
numerous in this county, and for
years they were hunted
for profit. Men would go
out on the fiats and put in days
and days running down and
rounding up a bunch of the wild
aniuials, and after being run
down the animals would be
snared and sidelined or clogged
then later yn the animals would
be driven east and sold to the
unsophisticated. Finally, catch-
ing the wild horses ceased to be
profitable and during the period
of extreme depression in the
horse market the few remaining
wild horses became nuisances
and they were exterminated by
local ranchmen, the stallions
being mercilessly shot. The
Herald editor was a witness to
several such incidents, deeming
the act of killing such animals as
perfectly justifiable and the
proper thing to do. These
stallions always presented a fine
appearance at a distance but a
close inspection generally proved
that they were small of bone and
body and mostly mane and tail
Probably the last animal of the
kind east of this place was killed
by Prank Kramer on the Hack
berry and Coldwater divide prior
to the removal of the Kramers to
Montana. During the Boer war
an attempt was made to catch
the few remaining wild horses
for shipment to that republic,
but the expedition proved
unprofitableowing to the. scai city
of the animals, and last year from
this place a narty was organized
to go a few miles west and round
in a small bunch, but this expe
dition was also unsuccessful, so
it may be said that the wild
horse is practically extinct in
Beaver county. In 1880 to '90 it
was no unusual incident, when
riding across the plains of this
county to see a bunch of wild
Morses, but both the horses and
the antelope, numerous at tht
time, have about disappeared
and, except for an occasional
antelope here and there, both of
these species of animal life of tht
plains will soon be extinct in this
part of the southwest and it is
true that with the disapi>earance
ot these animals, together with
other distinctive features of a
primitive west, the country has
lost much ot its original charm.
Delegates Appointed.
Governor Purguson has
appointed the following delegates
to represent Oklahoma at thr
National Irrigation congress
which meets at Portland, Oregon,
August 21, 22 and 2H. This
meeting was held last year at El
I'aao, Texas, and the position of
delegate is purely honorary.
The delegates are as follows:
J W. McNeal and J. M. Fife,
Guthrie; Walter C. Stevens,
lawton; H H. Champton, Knid;
11. G. Kverton, Mountain Park;
T. H..Jones, Mountain Park; O.
K. Benedict, Hobart; C. G.
Hhappard, Pawnee; K. J.
Kd wards, Oklahoma City; Lincoln
MeKinley, Newkirk; Uoy V.
Hoffman, Chandler; J. W.
McGee, Woodward; It B. Quinn,
Guymon; O. J. Logan, Ml, View
and A. L Squire of Grand.
WORK THE SECRET.
Big Kansas Crops Secured
With Scanty Rains.
William K. Curtis, writing to the
Chicago Record-Herald, says:
What is known aa the Campbell
method of "dry farming" is being
practiced on the aeiui-arid plains of
western Kansas and eastern Colorado
with remarkable success. The results
accomplished on seve*al model farms,
under the direction of the inventor,
discoverer or promoter- whichever
you may prefer to call him -are
remarkable, and are entitled to the
resp.i-1 of every one who is interested
in the development of the high, dry
plains Itetwetn the Rocky Mountains
and the Missouri river. Its advocates
declare that tliay have received no
encouragement from the agricultural
department at Washington.
Mr. Campbell ia at present engaged
in the development of a model farm
near the thriving little town of Hill
City, belonging to J. F. Poiueroy of
Colorado Springs. The latter, who
came into tills country seventeen or
eighteen yeara ago, haa been a rail-
roud and town site promoter. He has
between twenty and thirty thousand
acres of dry land in Graham county,
which cannot be reached by irrigation,
and founded the town of Hill City at
about the center of it, in a beautiful
location. He advertised hia scheme
all over Kansas and Colorado,
brought homeseekers and speculators
from every direction on free railway
trains, sold his town lots at auction
and gave an overcoat to every
purchaser. The town haa been quite
successful. It now has about SOU
inhabitants, an excellent hotel, aeveral
fine business blocks tilled with stocks
of goods, twoenterprlslng newspapers
ana all the other essentials of a flrat
class frontier town. Just outaide the
city limits Mr.Pomeroy fenoed off 240
acres of land about six years ago and
brought U. W. Campbell froir Hold-
ridge, Neb., to lay out a model farm
on his system of soil culture.
Anyone who has doubta of th1
practicability of the Campbell system
should come here before harvest and
compare the oropa on the Pomeroy
farm with those npon the farms that
surround It, for the yield of wheat,
oats, corn, potatoes and everything
else that Is growing will be four or
five times as great as will be harvested
on the other side of the fences.
Mr. Campbell haa been working In
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska and Kansas for twenty years
jr more, trying to induce farmers to
adopt his plin of "aoll culture," as
he calls it, and everywhere be has
been, from the James river In the
north to the Arkansas, he has been
equally successful in producing with-
out irrigation the or >e results that
are usually ex pec to 1 with irrigation,
with comparatively little more
expense, but a good deal more care
and lubor. There is no secret about it.
The whole thing is simply the exercise
of care and alienee and any man of
ordinary intelligence could work it
as well as a college professor oould.
Mr. Campbell's prinolplna at be
explained them to me are:
First-Catch the rainfall and store
it where the roots of the plants can
reach It. Second—Keep the soil
always fine and loose. Third—Have a
lirm, solid foundation under the soil
—a bottom to hold the water.
What will this accomplish?" I
asked.
"The careful, regular application
of these pri ciples in farming will
produce at least three times the
results of ordinary farming, and often
four and Hve times the res'ilta," Mid
Mr. Campbell.
"What is the additional expense?"
"In Ioya or Eastern Kansas not
more than 25 per oent more labor is
necessary than Is usually expended on
a crop by a good farmer. On the
prairies, as a rule, farming is cheap
and slipshod, and twice the labor is
necessary. But this is offset to a
certain extent by a saving of two-
thirds of the seed. An ordinary
farmer sows forty quarta of wheat to
the acre and gets from nothing to
twenty bushels; thirteen bushels to
the acre being the average crop of the
state, and fifteen bushels the highest
staU> average that has been reached
in Kansas for ten years. Under my
system any painstaking farmer, by
sowing twelve quarts of wheat to the
acre and cultivating his soil carefully
will harvest anywhere from forty to
fifty-aix bushels without (ail. We
can get forty bushels to the acre in
the foothills of the Kocky mountains or
anywhere else, with fourteen inches of
rain. You can get thesame difference
in every other plant or orop that
grows -in gross or the acre.
"This particular farm where I am
working was cultivated on the old
plan for fourteen yeara and never
yielded but one good crop. I came
here In February, 1900, and very aoon
will harvest my sixth crop. I have
never had less than forty buahela to
the acre and the crop this year will be
I letter than that, while the farmers all
around me will be glad to get thirteen
bushels to the acre?'
"Why don't they take up your
method?"
"Because they are stubborn and
prejudiced; there Is a popular dislike
to new fangied notions. Before I
came here it was advertised for six
weeks that I would explain my method
of soil culture at a public meeting. I
did so and out of a court house full
of farmers, only two men- John I.
< htinan and H. 8. Hisey adopted my
^commendations, and they have been
almost as successful as myself. They
have had fine crops ever since, but the
rest of the fartuera would not even ask
questions. Most of them will not
come to look at mv Ileitis, although
they know very well what kind of a
crop I have In comparison with their
own. I cannot Ooax theiu into my
orobarils.
"They keep away from the place aa
If It was full of contagion, but 1 found
the same spirit in Nebraska and the
Dakotas with only an occasional
convert "
"How do you do it?"
"By sWiring the rainfall in the
soils," answered Mr. Caiupliell; "by
keeping the surface of the ground
always loose, which stops evapora-
tion. it is imiMissible for moisture to
rise to the surface through loose soil,
and that leaves the ground in the l>est
condition to receive the next rain-
fall. Thus you can make fourteen
inches of rain go as far as twenty-five
or thirty inches in raising all kinds of
crops or plants tir trees. We do not
lose any of the rain we have the full
lienefit of it. We keep it stored where
the roots of the plant can reach it
when they need it. '
How do you accomplish this?"
"By stirring up the soil with a
revolving disk and then going over It
again and tilling up the furrow. We
call this "double disking." It
pulverizes the soil and levels it off.
We keep going over it again and
again, beginning early in the spring
and continuing until the last of June
or the first part of July. After every
rain we stir up the soil either with a
disk or an 'Acme' harrow. Finally
we plow seven inches deep In the
ordinary way and follow the plow with
a aubsurfaee packer -a machine
which makes a conn act. solid bottom,
four Inches from the surfaoe, under
the loose aoll. Then we go over it
again with the Acme harrow so as to
keep the top soil loose and pulverized.
After working the aoil for a year In
this wav, by what we call 'aummer
tilling/we putln our wheat, either
in the fall or In the spring, as la uaual.
The firat year we do not put in any
seed. We almplv keep' atlrring up the
soil ao that it will remain loose and
pulverised and after one year of thia
sort of cultivation three crops can be
grown in aucoesalon without renewing
the tilling. In aorae cases it la better
to till every other year and raise a
crop alternate yeara.
"If orops are planted every year the
reaper must be immediately followed
by the plow and the atubble immedi-
ately turned under and the soil disk
and harrow kept at work all winter if
it ia spring wheat, or from the June
harvest to the September planting if
winter wheat. The aame rule must be
applied to all the other klndi of crops.
' To repeat; It is simply a question
of the thorough working of the soil,
as I have describe*!. That ia more
important than the rainfall. No roan
can expect a crop who simply turns
under the sod and soatters his seed
and hauls a harrow carelessly over
the field. Labor and pains are
necessary to produce good results,
whether you are farming or making
furniture or publiahlng a newspaper.
"Certain scientific phenomena must
be observed also. I cannot tell you
why, but after a certain amount of
rain has fallen and penetrated a cer-
tain distance into the soil, eaoh particle
of earth absorbs it* share of the water
until the entire rainfall has been ab-
sorbed. If we can hold this water in
this soil during the summer season a
chemical action will follow which pro-
duces nitrates and generates bacteria,
or nitrogen In the aoil. The theory Is
thst the bacteria are latent or con-
cealed in the soil and can only be de-
veloped by moisture and cultivation."
"I have reached a point where I am
certain of the principles and the
results. I am certain that I can grow
as good crops In the foothills of the
Rooky Mountains as on the prairies
of Illinois. On thlafsrm we have had
unprecldented crops In a land where
failure is more certain than success.
We have demonstrated that ail kiuds
of botanical plants, grains, fruits and
berries can be grown In this semi-arid
region without Irrigation, with only a
moderate Increase of expense. We
hsre organised a company and have
secured 300,000 acres in the Panhandle
of Texas, and 80,000 acres in Kastern
Colorado, which we propose to cut up
into small farms and sell to those
who are willing to cultivate them by
this system. The Denver Post is
plsnning a model farm; there Is
another at Cheyenne Wells belonging
to the Kansas Pacitle railway; another
at Otis, supported by the Burlington
road, and also at Holdrldge, Neb.,
bsluuging to Oeorge W. Hold ridge, the
general manager of the Burlington, who
hsa stayed with mv from ths beginning.
Hs has been my beet friend and most
IutsI snpporter. Bat for his rneoarsgs-
uwnt f would have given it ap long sgo.
"I im nut opposed to Irrigation," said
Mr Campbell in eooelasion "Bat I re
gsrd it as annseessary wherever there is a
rainfsII of not Isss than fourteen inches.
Aad if we oould have 1 per sent of the
fnad that is bow belug expended in
irrigation plsats by ths goverament to
teaoh the people how to get along without
water in a semi and region, we oould
have ao msay more happy homee and so
maeh mors wealth in this eoantry."
The Pomeroy farm eertaialy provss ths
trsth of Mr. Campbell's theories, or else
There is
he is a wiaard.
i no water spon
it, esoept one well for domeatie pnrpoeea,
sod last ysar there was ouly shoot fifteen
iaohsa of raiafatt. This tear there hss
been a little more—perhaps eighteen
inches. And there to no more beaotifol
farm in the Sjootry. The on hard, Ave
ysars old, is equal to sny I have . ver
eeou; the hedges that divide the Held and
sarronnd the garden ars as h gh as t> s
head of a aaa; ths vegetable gsrdeo, the
berry toshes, the flowers aad the foiiago
ars oqaal to sny that yuo osn flud upon
ths best irrigstsd farm in California;
while the wheat, eorn aad potato*s are
oisinly perfect.
The farm across ths road looks skinay
aad shabby; ths gap« between t e rows of
corn; the bald apota in *he wheat and the
feeble potato* look aa if a conepitaoy
had been act up to fnroiah aa striking a
contrast aa possible. If rum one fleld aa
Mr. Campbell says, he expects to harvest
flfty all hoahela t>f wheat to the acre by
his system Ou ths other side of the
feaae, whsrs the ordinary methods have
been oeed, It will not pso oat more than
ssvsn or sight hash***, and It 1s ths same
soil and the same rainfall.
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