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.

Though Dawes county is suffering the same

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

as the country in general from shortage in The following table shows the number of

cattle, it now has a better grade of stock. One livestock in Dawes county in 1914, as comof the biggest herds of registered cattle in the pared to 1907:

state is owned by William Braddock on his

ranch north of Chadrori. Mr. Braddock has Kind 1914 1907

over three hundred and fifty head of regis- Cattle 21,181 43,975

tered Herefords. It doesn't cost very much Sheep 5,542 20,600

more to raise good stock and the returns are Hogs 4,494 2,275

several times as much. Mr. Braddock sells his Horses 10.132 8,239

calves for two and three times as much as the Mules and Jacks 527 123

ordinary calf will bring. There are several .

herds of registered cattle in Dawes county. 2,485 milch cows included.

The cattle business offers one of the greatest

opportunities open to capital at the present Dawes county has the natural resources to

time. Prices may fluctuate, but they will have a steady upward trend to meet the ever increasing demand from both home and abroad. Statistics show that there were in the United States, in 1907, over 72,533,000 head of cattle, as compared to 58,592,000 in 1914. The demand has been increasing steadily and the supply decreasing.