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.

The citizens of Kimball met with the officers of the Bay State Live Stock Company

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

and combined in an effort to develop the west territory of the county. About six hundred bushels of wheat were secured at a cost of fifty cents a bushel. This was given out in quantities for sowing ten acres. A large amount of broom flax seed was secured. Mr. Schultz living north of town raised fifty bushels of flax to the acre. John Campbell raised wheat that took first prize in Iowa at the state fair. The Bay State Company which was then taking steps to put some of the west par.t of the county in cultivation.

was then engineered by Geo. Simpson, John A. McShane and John Snodgrass.

The Farmers Union Co-operative Association of Bushnell was organized May 19, 1917, with the following charter members : E. T- McKinnon, G. A. Millett, G. E. Bloomfield, Arthur Olson, L. N. Van Pelt, Geo. Schindler, Lee Hall, Glenn Williams, H. J. Miller, H. C. Bloomfield, J. L. Miller, W. F. Choffer. W. E. Daniels, S. H. Wright, H. L. Wright, Lon Van Pelt, Mrs. F. U. Van Pelt, W. R. Jones, C. O. Taylor, E. P.urgstrum.