INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



peace and pursue it, but at crises of national 

 peril, 



"When the guns begin to shoot, 

 And there's trouble in the wind, 

 There's trouble in the wind, my boys, 

 There's trouble in the wind, 

 Oh, it's please to walk in front, sir, 

 When there's trouble in the wind." 



at such moments farmer boys can always be 

 counted on to man the firing line. 



We improve the carrying capacity of 

 semi-arid pastures by new grasses or resting 

 the pastures while growing. We raise 

 alfalfa on tablelands where no water nears 

 the surface. Selecting varieties or methods 

 of tilling for it will make alfalfa possible 

 over thousands of acres now under native 

 grasses. With alfalfa, dairying and pork 

 are profitable and cattle and horse raising 

 standard industries. Barley and emmer are 

 regular crops and, in places, winter wheat. 



A considerable proportion of the potatoes 

 raised in Nebraska are from the arid parts. 

 The quality being superior has established 

 a good reputation and a market. The in- 

 dustry has come up with little effort to 



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