Pigs farrowed in early spring can be turned off in the fall weighing one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, with little expense, by raising on alfalfa pasture and supplementing this in the early fall with sugar beets, and possibly a little grain. Hog raising here is not hampered with the risks common to many localities. In the last few years several have engaged in the business of raising pedigreed breeding stock and it bids fair to be a better paying business than raising hogs for the feeding market. There are about 6,000 hogs in Morrill county.
Dairying Although this has been a cattle country for years, little in the way of dairying has been done, it being the old practice of the beef growing rancher to buy all his butter in town. Dairying is too confining, has too much work attached to it, to suit the habits of the old style cattle men. They also maintained the extra milk going to calves made better calves. The high, dry atmosphere, warm winters, cool summer nights, and luxuriant feed makes this an ideal dairy country. Those who are going into it are making- money, and lots of it. There is no reason, if we can have the buttermakers. why North Platte valley will not have a national reputation for its excellent butter. Several farmers have their entire output contracted by the year. Others ship their cream, there being receiving stations at all of the railroad towns.
Poultry
A number of years ago eggs sold at "four dozen for a quarter." They have never been less than fifteen cents since the construction