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

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Dawes county but won second prize in the national contest competing against all the other counties in the United States. This shows what Dawes county can do under intense cultivation.

The following table shows what Dawes county produced: Crop Bushels

Corn 198,384

Spring Wheat 125,100

Oats 218,243

Rye 71.838

Barlev 13,542

Potatoes 131040

Alfalfa (tons) 27,394

Wild Hay ( tons') 8,641

hay in the stack since it cures up before frost and thus conserves its nutrition. This is one of the greatest assets for, with plenty of pasturage, only a small amount of hay is necessary. This reduces the cost of production to a minimum.

With good winter pasturage, two hundred tons of hay will easily winter five hundred head of cattle in Dawes county. The eastern part of the state would require several times that much hay to carry the same number of cattle through the winter, because the grass is of little value after frost hits it. Horses usually run out all winter without hay and work in the summer without grain. Eat cattle right off Dawes county grass bring nearly as much as corn