Every farmer has the benefits of the experiment station, the irrigation college, the county agent, and the expert irrigators and field men in connection with the sugar company. They are principally without cost to the people.

The chautauqua is another way by which we become informed. This institution was first brought into Scotts Bluff county by some of the Scottsbluff people, probably more as the result of the initiation of Rev. E. E. Thompson than any one man. In 1921 Gering offers a number one program.

A Snapshot of CbuNTY Schools By Ada M. Haldeman As the residents of Scotts Bluff county in the year of our Lord, 1920, recall the many and splendid achievements of the short thirty-one years of the county's existence, they would do well to go back in their imagination to the days

of the early pioneers of this county, or even farther to the period before Scotts Bluff county had been carved from the broad expanse of Cheyenne county.

With the early settler came the spirit of education. Wherever nature had left materials for a home the pioneer found them. With the sound of his ax and hammer as he fashioned his log shanty, came the echo of these tools as they helped to fashion the first rude school house.

Or, if you please, the stubborn sod, which parted from its mother earth that the plainsman mijjht build a home for himself and family, had* its companion turf peeled back clean cut and left to dry in the sun for the school house of the settler's children.