INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



able. So will the sugar beet. Before a 

 sugar factory arose in Nebraska we had 

 proved that the state could grow sugar 

 beets with profit. Then farmers and capi- 

 talists took hold. 



We have ascertained to a most valuable 

 extent what varieties of grains, grasses and 

 forage crops are at once hardy and produc- 

 tive in each several section under our 

 charge. The wide introduction of winter 

 wheat in Nebraska was largely due to our 

 experiments. Over 100 varieties were sown. 

 Most amounted to little and many were 

 valueless; but a few varieties, notably the 

 Turkish Red, proved hardy over a large ter- 

 ritory which had previously grown nothing 

 but spring wheat. As a result of this tryout 

 the state's winter wheat production in- 

 creased, it is safe to say, more than 10,000,- 

 ooo bushels a year, making wheat profitable 

 where it had not been so. Tame grasses 

 have been introduced, brome grass making 

 hardy and succulent pasture in precincts 

 where alien grasses had never flourished, 



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