Nature builded well and builded deep the foundations of Morrill county agriculture.

Morrill county has vast acres of irrigated land, which are passing from the larger holdings into smaller farms, for it has been found -- in the language of the late Arnold Martin -- "Twenty acres is abundant for any man, forty acres is a calamity, and eighty acres a catastrophe." Spreading acres develops the muscle but does not give the brain the wider chance to expand in scientific production.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

For ranching, Morrill county has its share of the great sand hills and rough lands suited only for grazing. And for the scientific dry-land farmer there are wide acres of upland prairie, and table land of the highest quality.

Physically, topographically, hydn ►graphically, geographically, geologically, stratigraphically, all these big sounding words speak for the glory of Morrill county. They tell of richness and beauty, and temperate climes: of a wonderful past and undreamed of future progress with the years.

Cattle

When we come to think of the countless herds of buffalo and antelope that first roamed in this valley ; the great herds of the cattlemen later, and' then how the salvation of the early settlers came through turning their attention to cattle instead of grain raising, it seems useless to say more about this being a cattle country. The land of free range -- the time when the cattle roamed the prairie summer and winter unrestricted -- is past. The coming cf the homesteader was the termination of the big rancher, except in such cases as a far-seeing ranchman has acquired title to large tracts of deeded lands. Also the better method, born of experience, is that cattle be ranged in summer and fed in winter. The cattlemen of old counted that it took from ten to sixteen acres to range a cow a year, giving feed both summer and winter from the prairie.