Predominent export products of Sheridan county in the agricultural lines are potatoes and wheat. Other ordinary farm products are raised, and there is considerable alfalfa and hay. In the valleys of the sand hills are many beautiful meadows, but their product is almost if not entirely for home use. The Spade ranch, while appropriating much of this valuable land to its own use, has done a fine line of development work thereon, by sowing the seed of tame grasses into the wild sod. Many

of the wild meadows have become fine fields of timothy and red clover.

Cattle, sheep and horses are raised in large quantities in Sheridan county. The best quality has taken the place of the old Texas varieties of cattle, although occasionally one of the ranchmen will ship in a train load of "old dogies" that makes the mind run back to the days of the Texas trail. It is doubtful if these experiments pay, in this rigorous climate, and this day of modern method of handling livestock, but the old timers get homesick for the old kind of the early days.

In these sand hill ranches we find two very different characters out of the growth of years. We find the ultra selfish, hardened, sly, deceptive and grasping kind occasionally, that has none of the milk of human kindness in them. Men that never help a fellow man, men whose object seeems to be to accumulate, and accumulate. Harsh men, but fortunately they are few.

I could name dozens, of the most excellent characters that the broad acres of sand hills have developed into giants of character, men like Festus Caruthers, only perhaps few that have attained the high degree of usefulness to the world. Festus Caruthers, in one instance, gave a young man three different starts on the right road to prosperity, before he stuck to it and struck his gait.