hogs during the summer season and the corn to finish them in the fall. Hog cholera is unknown.

Dairy products are of much importance. The county has one large creamery, which uses a large percent of the native product, but considerable is shipped to outside factories. The Snake Creek valley, having an average width of five miles and a length of thirty miles, produces a great deal of wrild hay. On the table lands straw, corn fodder, alfalfa and kaffir corn are used for rough feed. Many farmers have adopted the silo method of pre-

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cultivation, the remainder being unbroken prairie used for pasture when used at all. The soil is rich, porous and very productive. Itcontains potash, sufficient for renewal and fertilization, and is consequently inexhaustible. Land farmed continuously for thirty years produced greater crops the last year than the first. The soil is especially adapted to the production of potatoes, it being sufficiently sandy and loose to enable them to reach enormous growth, and being raised without irrigation, they are of splendid quality and keep well into the following year.

The next largest crop is of small grain -- wheat, oats, rye and barley all making satisfactory yields. Corn is a secondary crop, but the yield is continuously increased so that many more hogs are raised than formerly. Alfalfa is increasing in acreage and importance every year. This crop is used to pasture the

serving ensilage. The soil is very easily cultivated and the surface being very nearly level, farm labor is very light compared with that of eastern states.