Reasoning that it is bankruptcy to sell now, they are sticking for higher prices, feeling that they cannot lose by delay.

The wealth of Deuel county must be attributed to the thrift and energy of her citizens for it has been the product of the years. Soil has yielded rich rewards to the tiller, but the process has been slow. However, farms have developed, homes been established, the railroad is in vigorous operation and prosperous years have come to the people. Deuel is essentially an agricultural county and it is the products of the soil with the labor of the settlers that have won the county's place of prominence in Nebraska.

Great indeed are the changes from the day Deuel county was organized. There were no automobiles, motorcycles, tractors or the like in the county then and transportation was by wagon and buggy. Today all is changed, the motor cars frisk the population over the highways from town to town and across the country. Years ago the breaking plow was the king of implements, now its place is taken by the riding plow drawn in many cases by the tractor. Today nearly all farm machinery in the county is up-to-date. Gang plows stir the

fields that the old time implements began to work ; planters, drills, listers, seeders, harvesters or binders, double rowed cultivators, riding harrows, six foot mowers, rakes, sweeps, stackers, threshers, and every other implement that has a name or place in modern husbandry, are now in use in Deuel county fields on Deuel county farms. Today the telephone places the farmer in a position to keep in touch with the market hour by hour and much farm business today is transacted by telephone lines which stretch over Deuel county connecting the farms with the towns.