serum, which has now become a general practice and results have been 100%. Vaccination to prevent hog cholera in which two outbreaks started and both were checked. Many demonstrations made, advice given as to seed treatment for potatoes, wheat and oats.

Some of the constructive projects have been, potatoes, variety tests, seed trials, marketing problems worked upon, culminating in a potato exchange. Trees ; introduction of new varieties attempted as to Chinese elm, pines, orchard and landscape work.

Bees ; an association formed and bee inspector appointed.

Stock improvement, encouraging better sires.

< )ther problems worked on have related to farm records, labor, exchange, irrigation and drainage, seed testing, introduction of newvarieties of grain and forage.

State and county exhibits.

During these three years crops have been good. This county surprises people from the east by the quality of corn and its sureness to ripen. Winter wheat is taking the place of spring wheat. The potato industry is developing, and an effort made to get quality acreage of the same increased.

In irrigation, government extension will add 15,000 additional acres under ditch, bringing amount of irrigated land to near 100,000 "acres.

GOVERNMENT IRRIGATION

A short history of the general subject of government irrigation and the inception of the various projects in western Nebraska, and near the Wyoming border which laid the foundation for the later enterprises that have been or are being projected in Morrill county.

The first irrigation in America, except by pre-historic peoples, was by the Spanish in Xew Mexico. The Mormons, after 1847. practiced it extensively in Utah. In the early fifties Germans from San Francisco established the colony of Anaheim, building a canal and cutting the farms into 20-acre