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

Superior Domixo-557924, 0\yxi:i> r.v Mrs. \Ym. Rrawuick, Chadron.

Dawes county ranks fourth in the state in the production of spring wheat. This «record is exceptionally good when you consider the fact that there are only five hundred and eighty-seven men over twenty-one years old on the farms in Dawes county.

The live stock industry is, of course, the chief industry in the county. No country can be better adapted to the raising of cattle than Dawes county. Its grasses are nutritious and fattening. The grass is as good in winter as

fed cattle on the market. Grazing land is cheap and the cost of raising livestock of all kinds is very low as compared to the cost to the eastern farmer on his high priced land, who has to feed corn winter and summer to fatten his cattle. The eastern feeders are casting envious eyes in this direction and it won't be long before a good many of them will have a Dawes county ranch to supply their feed lots with cattle.