TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART XII 811 



Potatoes — Light yield, fair quality. 



Apples — Small yield on account of late frosts in spring. 



Other Fruits — Raspberries and blackberries plentiful. 



Cattle — In good condition all summer; pasturage excellent. Not so 

 many as usual going into the feed lots on account of high priced corn. 



Horses — Average condition; not so many colts as usual. 



Sicine — Healthy condition. Spring crop below the average; cold cloudy 

 weather cut off a great many of the spring pigs. 



Sheep — Not very numerous but flocks in a healthy condition. 



Poultry — Spring chickens below the average in number. 



Drainage — Surveys being made to have the Boyer River straightened 

 to connect with Harrison County ditch now being dug. 



Lands — Steady improvement in values, fair uplands ranging from $75 

 to $90 per acre and some reaching $100. 



Report of Fair — Held at Arion, September 21, 22, 23, 1909. A success- 

 ful fair, strictly agricultural. A steady advance in all classes of stock 

 and grain exhibited. Poultry was well represented, giving evidence that 

 people are interested in this great source of wealth. The culinary de- 

 partment made a fine showing. The educational exhibit, a new department 

 added this year, was of interest and a great success and will be continued 

 in the future. 



DALLAS. 



T. D. RITTGERS, DALXAS CENTER, JANU.VEY 29, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Seaso7i — Crops were not up to the 

 average on account of a wet spring and a drouth during the summer 

 months. 



Corn — A large acreage planted but conditions were such that the yield 

 was below the average. Early frost and wet fall weather unfavorable to 

 husking and cribbing. A large amount of corn in the field at this writ- 

 ing. 



Oats— Ahont an average crop. 



Wheat — Winter wheat was good and a fair crop; very little spring 

 wheat grown. 



Rye — Mostly grown for seeeding and pasture for feeding cattle; not 

 for grain crop. 



Barley — Only a small acreage; average crop. 



MUlri — Very little sown. 



Sorghum — Made a good yield for a forage crop; acreage is increasing 

 each year. 



Timothy — Heavy crop and put up in good condition when put in barns 

 but when put in stacks it was badly damaged by fall rains. 



Clover — Very good crop and put under cover in good condition. Stacked 

 clover in bad condition. Very little hulled for seed but was of good qual- 

 ity. 



Prairie Hay — Almost a crop of the past; only a limited amount on very 

 low, undrained land. 



