. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . y till. Their farms average , with an average value ofabout $5,000. Nebraska farm prop-erty in 1900 was set down at 8747,-950,000. In 1904 her corn crop was266,959,194 bushels; wheat, 31,825,-850; oats, 66,810,065; other cereals6,782,975; hay, 5,308,790 tons, be-sides live stock worth $138,828,187,and manufactured products reaching152,629,508. Then you must notforget our cows—541,361 ofthem—whose music in the milk pailwas to the tune of $11,000,000. Ne-braskas hens also cackled over anest of 19,700,000 dozen eggs, and adressed poultry
. Home Missionary, The (April 1905-March 1906) . y till. Their farms average , with an average value ofabout $5,000. Nebraska farm prop-erty in 1900 was set down at 8747,-950,000. In 1904 her corn crop was266,959,194 bushels; wheat, 31,825,-850; oats, 66,810,065; other cereals6,782,975; hay, 5,308,790 tons, be-sides live stock worth $138,828,187,and manufactured products reaching152,629,508. Then you must notforget our cows—541,361 ofthem—whose music in the milk pailwas to the tune of $11,000,000. Ne-braskas hens also cackled over anest of 19,700,000 dozen eggs, and adressed poultry product of 4,158,957pounds. The staples of Nebraskaare the necessary food products onwhich the world lives. But there are two Nebraskas; onefarm land, the other cattle former, 50,000 square miles inextent, is divided into 121,000 farmsas productive as the Louisiana Pur-chase affords. The latter, 26,000square miles in area, though it hasfertile valleys and watered gar-dens is simply our us from Iowa, and, in blue. RANCH LIFE IN THE SAND HILLS jeans, standing among gang plows,self-binders, press-drills, listers andcream separators, we smile you afarmers welcome. Come to us fromWyoming, and we drop our lariatsand branding irons, ride out on sad-dle-ponies to open the wire gate,bring you to our ranch house, whereall that it affords is free to you, andyou may admire our sleek herds ofwhite-faced cattle (Herefords) toyour hearts content. This cattlecountry is itself a diversified land. First: The sand hills, treeless,grass covered sand-dunes, with in-terspersed hay valleys and oftenshallow lakes; abundant water, hayand range make it the paradise ofcattle men. It probably occupies inthe western part of central Nebraskasome 19,000 square miles. Second: Beyond this region isthe high, buffalo-grass table land,wide in extent, with river valleys,like the Lodge Pole, Platte and Nio-brara, and between them elevated plains often cropping out in loftybuttes of
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