Seventeen hundred bushels of carrots to the acre seems almost impossible, but such a crop

was raised by J. W. Good on his farm six miles east of Chadron. He raises every year from five hundred to six hundred bushels of onions to the acre and from thirty to thirtyfive tons of stock beets to the acre. Last year, one of the driest years of record, his corn went fifty bushels; his wheat has run as high as thirty-six bushels and his oats sixtythree bushels to the acre. Mr. Good is one of the biggest hog raisers in the state. He has about twelve hundred hogs feeding on alfalfa. He gets a cent a pound more for his hogs than the market price because they are free from disease and find a ready market at the serum plants at advanced prices. Dawes county has never had a case of hog cholera. There is lots of money to be made raising hogs where alfalfa is so easily produced. Mr. Good has over five hundred acres in alfalfa besides raising a greater variety of crops than any other farmer in Dawes county. He has proved that Dawes county will raise almost any crop raised in the eastern part of the state when properly cared for.

Other Dawes county farmers will verify statements as to their yields. Schwabe brothers last year netted over $60 per acre from one hundred and twenty acres of alfalfa six miles north of Chadron. They cut the first crop for hay which averaged about a ton and a half to the acre. The next crop was left for seed and averaged from five to eight bushels per acre. Dr. Wes Grantham is author of the statement that his alfalfa land three miles south of Chadron, netted him more than $80 per acre last year.