All cannot hold office ; some hold the minor offices in the county with excellent record and others never aspired to office of any kind. The southwest part of the county, the valley around Harrisburg, and the tableland south are filled with the good people whose names are familiar and who have been there for a generation. Other parts of the county have equally as good representation, but perhaps the tableland has developed more rapidly as, a wheat and grain producing community, for there is no better soil to be found anywhere in Nebraska.
Here the modern method, tractor farming, is at its best, for the far reaches of prairie offer no obstruction. The only limitation to the length of the furrow is the ownership of the land. Last year there was a section of wheat raised along the state and federal aid state road south of Harrisburg that not a hoof of an ani-
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mal touched. It was plowed, disced, harrowed, seeded, harvested, threshed, and hauled off the place with machinery. A combination harvester and thresher was used in garnering the crop ; and motor driven trucks hauled it away. This, however, is an extreme case of fanning by machinery. Nearly everyone has some horses and cows are a necessity on a farm. The
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is yet the queen of the state and the bidlen is a maid of honor, inner county now has but seven precincts ced to meet the present requirement of the