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. Dawes county seed is recognized as a superior quality throughout the country. John O'Donnell won first prize at the state fair with his Dawes county seed raised along the Niobrara valley. At the Land Show in Omaha when all the farming sections from the Missouri river to the Pacific were in competition, Dawes county won first prize with its alfalfa seed, testing 98 per cent pure.

Dawes county last year won two out of the three first prizes given to the boy or girl in the state showing the biggest yield of poatoes, corn and garden produce. Dawes county won the state championship on potatoes and garden produce. Frank Chaulk, 17 years old, raised two hundred bushels of marketable potatoes on one acre, doing all the work himself, and beat all the other counties in the state with his yield.

The garden truck prize went to Myrtle Mann who netted $71.20 from one tenth of an acre of ground five miles south of Chadron. She not only won the state championship for