The latter is not always harvested in the regular way. Hogs and sheep have been found to be excellent corn harvesters.

Vegetables

Potatoes, or "spuds," lead all others combined in quantity and importance, although cabbage was early a commercial crop. Recently pickles ( or cucumbers ) have been grown for the Heinz people. Onions have been produced on a limited scale. They yield several hundred bushels per acre, and are usually of a high market value.

Other Crops The homesteader has found sorghum and millet profitable forage crops. The season is too short for kaffir corn to ripen. Sorghum making has been tried here. The finest kind of sorghum molasses was the result but frost is liable to cut the milling season short. Beans yield heavily both with and without irrigation. This seems to be the natural

home of everything of the pea and bean family. Carrots make a good crop. No country ever raised finer turnips. Along the line of garden and truck farming nut so much is known, but there is no reason why the farmer should not keep his table well supplied with home-grown vegetables. Watermelons, squashes, pumpkins and tomatoes produce mammoth yields. Now that there is a tendency toward intensified farming it is probable that many crops heretofore untried will prove to be money-makers. As a crop producing section Morrill county is yet in its infancy.

Fruits

It has been the prevailing idea that this is not a fruit country. We can remember when the prospects of eastern Nebraska being a fruit country was far more discouraging than that of Morrill county. From the writer's observations and experiences many fruits are excellent producers. It will not be long before we will have canning factories .putting up strawberries, currants, raspberries, mulberries, cherries and plums. And in their season the same factories will make a market for large quantities of beans, peas, and sweet corn.