The splendid agricultural record of Kimball county is reflected by the various achievements of its citizens at the state and county fairs in the past few years.

In 1913 Kimball and three neighboring counties carried off fifty-one prizes at the state fair. Premiums awarded Kimball county were :

First on red spring wheat in bundle, Nelson.

First on Durham wheat in bundle. Nelson.

First on white ats, threshed. Nelson.

First on white oats in bundle. Nelson.

Second on red spring wheat in bundle, Nelson.

Second on Durham wheat in bundles. Nelson.

Second on potatoes, Claussen.

Third on Durham wheat in bundle, Ernst.

Third on winter rye, Pedrett.

Third on popcorn, Jaccby.

At the 1920 state fair, at Lincoln, the oercentages awarded to the county exhibits from the western district reflects Kimball county's high standing, it being surpassed only by Dawes county, with a rating of 435.5, and Kimball reaching a rating of 385.5, while Sheridan was third with a rating of 352.9 ; Hitchcock, fourth at 334, and Cheyenne, fifth with 275.7. In the irrigated divisions, Morrill, Lincoln and Keith carried away the honors.

District Honors

Kimball county won sixty-two per cent of all prizes at Rushville show.

Kimball not only landed the 1920 convention of the Western Nebraska Potato Growers, but carried away sixty-two per cent of the prizes at this year's meeting. Kimball sent 1,600 pounds of her choice spuds to the exhibition held at Rushville. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. She landed second place in county exhibits and second in artistic display. Jake Pedrett was elected