The Campbell system of farming is not popular here, although spring grain is sometimes cut down to about half a normal crop because of drouth. A good crop can be raised every year by rotating winter wheat and other crops. The last failure was in the year 1895.

The average crop of winter wheat is twentytwo luishels per acre, but a yield of thirty-five bushels per acre is nut uncommon. This land is now selling at about $70.00 per acre, some

well improved places bringing over $100.00 per acre.

The descent from the wheatland to the North Platte river is rough, precipitous, and bluffy, there being but a few comparatively narrow strips of bottom land on the south side of the river. This so-called canyon strip is excellent grazing land.

The principal irrigated land belt of the county lies along the north side of the river. This strip of alfalfa and beet land is about two and one-half miles in width and extends clear across the county. Until the year 1916, but little of this valley was in cultivation. It produced abundant crops of wild hay without irrigation, and the owners were satisfied and prosperous. Now, however, the "big noise" of the sugar beet is heard in the land and the old order is changing. In 1918, automatic beet dumps were constructed at Oshkosh and Perm and numerous tracts of from twenty to two hundred acres were planted, to beets. The yield was so satisfactory that in the year 1919 the acreage was greatly increased, and the sugar beet industry is with us to stay. The 1919 crop was about 15,000 tons.