Small numbers of cattle, sheep, and hogs are fed for market in good crop years. Alfalfa is the principal feed crop, while corn, barley, beet tops, oats, emmer, and such other feed and forage crops as may have succeeded during the season are utilized.

I >airying is carried on to a small extent, but is a comparatively unimportant industry. Sufficient milk and butter is produced to supply the local demand, and small shipments are made to outside points. A small

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creamery has been established at Kimball. The cattle on the farms are of good grades, the Hereford blood predominating in the herds of beef cattle and the Holstein in the dairy herds. Most farms have from three to six horses of heavy-draft type. All the farms are equipped with the modern labor-saving machinery required for grain farming on an extensive scale. Tractors are extensively used for breaking land.

Agricultural Asso< i vtions

The law-makers at Washington either did not know (.r did not take into ci nsideration the fact that there was a whole lot of land in southwestern Nebraska that doe- not belong in the sand hill classification and is a virtual garden spot, but it came within their laws all to the fortunate and yet deserving efforts of these settlers whose goi d judgment led them to that locality.

One of the earliest agricultural activities was that of the Kimball [mprovement Association organized in 1888, and furnishing the fanners with seed wheat without cost.