During the summer season there is a custodian in charge, and the people from one end of the valley to the other, join in the sport and entertainment common and general at such places.

Experiments and Orcharding

Probably dozens in the county have sought to increase forage and hay crops by the introduction of vetches and other plants. The editor has tried a number, including the shipping of quack grass sod from Minnesota and Johnson grass sod from Arkansas. Neither has proven a success.

In 1889, I planted an orchard from the Crete nurseries on my father's homestead in Banner county.

In Scottsbluff city are numerous orchards on the places along Overland Road : notably the Sams place, the Howard place, the Wright place, the Dooley place, the Hall place, and what was formerly the Evans place. O. B. Brown had a fine orchard which was sold to Mr. Mills, and is now cut up into smaller places about Ninth and Tenth streets. Herman Slingbaum and C. D. Snvder have excellent fruit

acreage on Eleventh street, and Wm. Marlin on Tenth avenue. Others in the same vicinity also are growing fruit. The John Emery farm east of town, and the Joe Emery farm west of town, the C. H. Simmons orchard in the east part of the city, are close in nice orchard places.

Farther out are some of the most noted places in the county: the orchards of Ed. Scrivens and Howard Raymond northwest and those of Otto Jurgens and Teodore Carlson between here and Minatare.