In that day it was known as Lucerne, Chilan clover, or California clover, the name alfalfa coming into general use later on. It is difficult to estimate the value which Colonel Parks initiation has been to our community and commonwealth.

During the campaign of 1920, the output from the four sugar mills at Scottsbluff, Gering, Bayard and Mitchell will be approximately one thousand pounds of refined sugar every minute of the day and night, a total of some one hundred and fifty million pounds.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

SAND HILL RANCHES OF TODAY -- DANGERS OF THE STAMPEDE -- ORIGIN OF SOME WESTERN EXPRESSIONS -- PRANKS OF EARLY DAYS

The Sand Hill regions of Sheridan, Sioux and Garden counties, are more extensive than others of the Panhandle, though not having the area of Cherry county, which lies further east, or not having the percentage of grazing land that a number of the small counties in the Sand Hills contain.

These Sand Hill regions are now the home of many great ranches that have come since the old cattle baron went over the Great Divide. In early granger days, and while the sand hills were passing to title under the section homestead act, we heard stories of feudal despots known as "cattle barons." But always these bold, bad buccaneers were "over the hill," somewhere. They were elusive, and no one ever quite "met up" with one.

A few half insane bachelors like John Krause, added a touch of realism to the stories told. But the real ranchers of the sand hills were fellows like Charles Tulleys, Festus Carothers, Everett Eldred, Ed Meyers, John Batchelor, Avery Brothers, L. E. Ballinger, George Richardson, Smith Brothers and scores of others that could be named.