The railroadl companies would load up several car loads of VG from Little Russia in, Kansas and ship them to small sheds in sugar beet fields in Colorado and Iowa and leave them there for the entire summer to tend beets and return them in the fall for what was considered free rent and lucrative work for the entire summer, according to news clippings of the time from 1900 to 1910. These seem to be the later migrants and available as the easy land was already gone to the earlier wave of settlers. Availability more than tradition in this endeavor seemed to be the main factor here. Frank Jacobs. ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17080) http://www.pctools.com/ =======