National Affairs: Campbell Program

To Washington and the White House last week went tall, wiry Thomas Donald Campbell of Hardin, Mont, to lay before President Hoover a program for solving the wheat problem. Financed by the House of Morgan in 1918, Mr. Campbell applied industrial methods to 95.000 Montana acres, became the largest wheat farmer in the U. S. In 1929 he went to Russia as wheat adviser to the Soviet Government. This year on his Hardin farm, he cut his wheat acreage, substituted flax and beans for grain. As an authority and a supporter of the Farm...

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