The group in attendance made a trip to Fort Collins and Greeley, potato region, from Kimball and made a special study of potato experiments.

Farm Bureau

Kimball county was one of the first counties in the state to take up the farm bureau work. It was first organized in 1915, and has shown a steady growth from year to year. Since the organization there have been five countv agents: Geo. Unruh, R. E. Holland, P. H. "Stewart, W. C. Calbert, and C. L. Deitz. The present occupant being enly temporary.

The following is a summary of the work accomplished by this office during the vear 1920.

A campaign for soil improvement by rotation, fertilizers, etc., increased crop production by cultural methods, disease control. and the introduction of varieties of high yielding seed.

The potato growers have been organized and have been co-operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the State Horticultural Department. The growers have all been induced to treat their seed for disease and where their crops have been free from disease their seed for sale has been certified. The local organization also belongs to the Nebraska Potato Exchange. Their county exhibit took first place at the state show. The sugar beet growers were organ ized into an association of thirty-two members and secured a modern dump at ( Iwasco.

Experiments were conducted with the following miscellaneous crops: kaffir, feterita, broom corn, and limine grass.

A strenuous campaign was waged for the eradication of prairie dogs, ground squirrels, potato bugs, grasshoppers, elm leal' rollers and small fruit pests.