790 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Cattle — Have done well this season; generally a little short of stockers. 



Horses — Have clone well; good heavy shipments and extra good prices. 



Sicine — Crop of spring pigs lighter than usual; generally healthy and 

 prices high. 



Sheep — Less sheep business than usual and poor crop of lambs. 



Poultry — Business has been good. 



Bees — Lighter than usual. 



Drainage — A great amount of tiling being done this fall. 



Other hidiistries — Lands are rapidly increasing in value; loans steady; 

 general condition good. 



Report of Fair — Held Septeember 14, 15 and 16, 1909. Exhibits were 

 light, owing to bad weather on entrance day; paid out. 



ADAMS. 



GEO. E. BLISS, CORNING, SEPTKMnER 19, 1909. 



General Condition of Crops and 8eas07i — Season very wet but crops grew 

 well where land was high and rolling. 



Corn — About seventy-five per cent. Nearly one-fourth of crop drowned 

 out. Bids fair to be splendid quality. 



Oats — Averaged about thirty-one bushels per acre; excellent quality. 



M^heat — Winter wheat fine; yield about twenty-one bushels; spring 

 wheat yield twelve bushels; good quality. 



Rye — Very little raised; some sowed but nearly all pastured early and 

 land plowed and planted to corn. 



Barley — Good crop; yield close to thirty-eight bushels per acre. 



Buckwheat — None raised. 



Millet — Excellent and saved for hay in fine condition; very little 

 threshed. 



Sorghum — Good crop; considerable put in for molasses. 



Timothy — Heavy on low lands but averaging all over probably one ton 

 per acre. 



Clover — First cutting very good, but no second cutting. 



Prairie Hay — Extra good crop but small acreage in this county. 



Other Gra'ins and Grasses — Speltz a fair crop but not considered very 

 valuable. 



Potatoes — Early varieties probably three-fourths of average crop; late 

 varieties about sixty per cent of crop. 



Vegetables — Fair crop of most all kinds. 



Apples — Largest crop in five years and of fine quality. 



Other Ffiiits — Strawberries half a crop; raspberries sixty per cent; 

 blackberries one hundred per cent. 



Cattle — Have done well owing to timely rains; seems to be lots of them. 



Horses — Plenty of horses and prices high; an unusual crop of colts 

 this year. 



Svnne — Pig crop came too early and not as many saved as usual. Fat 

 hogs are scarce. 



S/ieep— About the usual lamb crop last spring; are in good condition 

 and selling well. 



