Since the canals mentioned were constructed, the idle and unbroken acreage sub-irrigated from them has produced the finest natural hay, and where water has been turned upon the unbroken prairie, a natural growth of what is called wheat grass springs up which makes the finest wild hay that is to be found upon the western market. While the elevation naturally shortens the seasons, and because also our summer nights are invariably cool, corn is not the principal crop; vet in the valley under irrigation, and on the table above the canals, corn is grown and makes a paying crop. With both the U. P. and Burlington roads running here and with direct lines to South Omaha, our feedingfacilities are unexcelled. Already thousands of cattle and sheep are brought into the valley and prepared for market on alfalfa, oats and corn. And if at any time the local supply of corn falls short, it can be shipped in from the locality known as the "corn belt" at a rate several cents per hundred cheaper than Fort Collins, Greeley and other great feeding points can obtain, so that with unlimited quantities of alfalfa grown here, with oats in abundant supply, yielding as it does when properly handled, from 80 to 120 bushels per acre, with freight rates in our favor, and with the cattle market within twenty-four hours from the loading chute, this has become the greatest winter feedingsection in the country, thus affording a home market for two of the principal crops produced. Sugar factories to the west of us have caused much attention to he given to the beet crop. Receiving stations are located at frequent intervals on both railroads where the beets are weighed and loaded, the company paying the freight to the factory, and in this way the grower whose field is fortymiles from the factory receives the same