The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-10-04
WEST NEBRASKA
MAKES SHOWING
Era Of Prosperity in Box Butte County:
Notwithstanding Community
Makes Great Showing.
NEs. STATE BULLETIN REPORT
Box Butte Said to be khe Banner
County the United States for
the RAISING Of Potatoes.

Visitors to Box Butte county, NeDr.,
report that an era of prosperity OBJ
tains there such as has not been seen
for many years, AS farming commun.
| ity, a better showing has been made
the last few years and less trouble
has been caused on account of the
drought which prevails in some parts
OF the western country.
The discovery Of potash in unlimit.
er quantities in the neighborhoOd of
ALLIANCE and east of that city, is bring
ling an immense amount of foreign
tcapital into the county for investment.
Box Butte is the banner county of the
United States for raising potatoes In
Equality and quantity. 1t is said that
500 car loads of potatoes will be ship
ped out of the town of Hemingford
alone this year.
The town is full of eastern buyers
purchasing potatoes to be shipped all
over the country. We furnish some
statistics from the Nebraska state
Bulletin as follows:
| Another Nebraska county bears the
name of Banner, but in several re-
spects Box Butte is the banner county
of this great state. Bulletin No. 166
of the Nebraska State Board of Agri.
culture, issued January IS, 1916, con-
tains information regarding the crop
yield of Nebraska counties for last
year that is, no doubt, approximately
correct.
According to the above mentioned
bulletin, only one county in the state
exceeded Box Butte in the average
yield per acre of oats in 1915. That
was Dawes county, with the average
L of 500 bushels, to Box Buttes average
of 56.2. Saunders county came in third
with 55.3. The average for the state
was 34.7 bushels per acre.
Forty-six of Nebraska's ninety-two
counties are credited with a larger
Iyield per acre on corn; forty-one acres
are reported lower, and four others
reported the same as Box Butte, 30
bushels per acre, which Is 2.6 bushels
below the average for the state. Not
so bad on corn for q county that Is not
In the Corn belt" II.
with the average Of 26.2 bushels
per acre, Box Butte stands above
eighty.six other counties on winter
wheat, and well above the average for
the state, which is 1877 bushels.
Nebraska skinned forty ways" in
yield OF spring wheat, and Box Butte
lis the banner county of the whole
state, with an average Of 25.5 bushels.
Cheyenne county is second with 24.2,
and Dawes third with 1913. The aver.
age for the state is 1872.
On rye Box Butte's average of 25.S
bushels was more than fifty per cent
above the average for the state, 1863
bushels, and was exceeded by only
three other counties, Washington with
Bis, Colfax, PIG, and Seward 26.S.
Box Butte's average yield of barley
is 40 bushels, which is 1913 above the
average for the state Of 29.1 bushels.
Three other counties, Dawes, Deuel.,
and Jawnee, had the same average and
only one, SCOTS Bluff, exceeded 1t.
having an average Of 51.4 bushels.
On alfalfa Box Butte Is little un.
der the, average yield for the state,
but at the state fair took first prize
on quality for the western section
the state being divided into three sec.
tions for the exhibition of agricultural
products, eastern. middle, and west.
ern. The past year was a good one Tor
alfalfa tonnage in eastern Nebraska,
which beat western Nebraska little
on amount, but could not equal ~ tn
quality.
But it's in potatoes where Box Butte
shines brightest OF all the ninety-two
Nebraska counties-not only In the
1915 crop. but every year. And we
want to say little about spuds that
readers of this paper will remember.
One other county reports more bush.
els, but for all that this Is the banner
potato county, and we will quickly
show you. Last year 737,550 bushels
were grown in this county; pretty
good don't you think, for sparsely
settled county where less than Is per
cent of the land is under cultivation?
One other county, Cherry, has larger
number of bushels. LOIS, 1893; but Cher.
ry county is nearly six times larger
than Box Butte, so that in proportion
to sixe Box Butte grew more than four
times as many as Cherry. In proper.
ton to size, Box Butte had from two
to forty times as many potatoes as
the other counties of the state: The
average yield per acre for Box Butte
coul1ty was 1875 bushels; for the
state, 1916 bushels. rom the Al
lance Herald, Alliance Nebraska
viii Report to Retaln Lakes,
That the report of the highway COM
mission on the state lake inspection.
which will be finished this week, will
recommend the retaining and improv-
ing of most of 1owa's lakes with the
exception of very few, which should
be drained is the intimatiOn given out