822 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Horses — Good quality. Prices high; eastern buyers purchase the best 

 draft stock for shipment: price averages about $150 for good three-year- 

 olds. 



Swine — Smaller crop on account of high price of corn; quality good; big 

 demand for shoats. 



Sheep — Very few in the county; most all shipped in, rough fed and then 

 marketed. 



Poultry — Quality improving each year; wet spring caused big death rate 

 of young stock; output not as large as usual. 



Bees — Few kept. Honey crop of good quality and medium quantity. 



Drainage — Ten drainage districts established in this county; large 

 amount of tiling going on. 



Other Industries — Sugar beets quite an industry; average twelve tons 

 per acre, $5 per ton f. o. b. Hampton. Soil well adapted for beets and 

 about five hundred acres raised; one thousand acres to be raised in 1910. 



Lc3?ds— Value raised within twelve months. Average price around $100 

 per acre for good improved farms, $65 to $85 for medium quality. 



Report of i^ai?-— Held at Hampton, September 28, 29, 30, 1909. One of 

 the best fairs ever held in the county; attendance large and everyone well 

 satisfied. Displays in every department exceeded room for same; pre- 

 miums paid amounted to double the amount ever paid before. Corn ex- 

 hibit was fine; about one hundred entries. :\Iany entries in the stock de- 

 partment; quality good. Ladies' department overflowing with extra fine 

 exhibits. The fair was a success financially and otherwise. 



GREENE. 



WILL.\KD ZELI.ER, COOPKB, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — During the early part of the 

 season the ground was in very god shape for seeding but during corn 

 planting time it commenced to rain and some of the corn was not planted 

 until the middle of June. Heavy rains did lots of damage to the growing 

 crop. 



Corn — Below the average in yield and of very poor quality on account 

 of heavy rains and hard winds. 



Oats — Light in yield but of fair quality; about 25 bushels per acre. 



Wheat — Very little sown but that was of fair quality. 



Rye — Very little sown. 



Barley — Good but little sown. 



Flax — None. 



Buckicheat — None. 



Millet — Small acreage but quality and yield good. 



Sorghum — Very little grown but of good quality. 



Timothy — Good yield and fine quality; not enough raised to supply the 

 demand; hay being shipped in. 



Clover — Badly winter killed where the second crop was taken for seed. 



Prairie Hay — Small acreage but of fair quality. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Fair. 



