No doubt most of the whole valley of the North Platte is good, but if there is any place more worthy to be called the garden spot of the great plains, than Garden county's irrigated belt, we know not the name of that place.

"Where once the redskin to the death. Fought pioneer and scout, The Swede with non alcoholic breath. Sets rows of cabbage out."

However our champion cabbage raiser is Japanese, Mr. I. Ibata, and he makes a success of it every year. As a side issue he raises a few car loads of potatoes. His farm lies n short distance northwest of Lewellen.

Peas are about the surest of all the truckcrops: furthermore they are just the thing for rotation with beets and alfalfa. Naturally we must have a canning factory before it will pay to plant large acreages to such a perishable vegetable.

North of the irrigated belt before reaching the real sand hill grazing country, there is a strip about fifteen miles wide in which lie numerous patches of excellent farm land. The largest of these is called the "west table" which lies north of Lisco. This table has just the right soil for corn and potatoes, and in early times, A. B. Allen made it famous for the production of navy beans. Here lies the winter wheat ranch of G. W. Berge; and he and his neighbors will tell you that their lands will produce good crops of grain. Dry land, well, yes, but isn't that better than wet land as long as it will produce the crops.