834 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Oats — Good quality; average about thirty-five bushels per acre; good 

 harvesting weather; straw and grain look bright. 



Wheat — More grown than of late years; average about thirty bushels 

 and of good quality. 



Rye — But very little grown; good yield and quality. 



Barley — About the average acreage; fair quality. 



Flax — None raised. 



Biickicheat — Very little grown. 



Millet — Very little grown. ♦ 



8orglnivi — Very little raised; good quality. 



Timothy — Very heavy crop and of good quality. 



Clover — Not much harvested except for hay; a heavy crop, good qual- 

 ity. Lrast spring's seeding exceptionally good. 



Prairie Hay — Noae in the county. 



Potatoes — Fair yield and good quality. 



Vegetables — About the average amount raised; quality fair. 



Apples — A short crop; thousands of bushels frozen on the trees by the 

 heavy October frost. 



Other Fruits — Plums and cherries not a good crop. Peaches not as 

 good as last year. Number of trees increasing. 



Cattle — Condition of herds improving; Aberdeen Angus, Short-Horns 

 and Herefords predominate. Keen interest taken by breeders to improve 

 the different breeds. 



Horses — Only the very best are being raised here now; mostly heavy 

 work horses and roadsters. Good demand and high prices. 



Swine — Pig crop fair; all well bred. No cholera in the county and 

 prices good. 



Sheep — Not generally raised among the farmers. The Amana Society 

 has several flocks of several thousand each. 



Poultry — Increasing interest taken in poultry raising. 



Bees — Very few stands in the county. 



Drainage — Considerable wet and low land has been reclaimed in the 

 past year, both by machinery and hand tiling. This work is increasing 

 every year. 



Other Industries — Woolen and flour mills report an average business. 

 Canning factories, on the average, did not do well this year. Creameries 

 have done an exceptionally good business. Brick and tile factories report 

 good business. 



Lands — Building improvements on the increase. More improved methods 

 of cultivation and more attention given to fertilizing; the use of manure 

 spreaders on the increase. More intensive farming practiced by the 

 farmers. Lands range in price from $90 to $200 per acre. 



Report of Fair — Held at Marengo, August 10, 11, 12, 1909. Weather was 

 quite warm and attendance was not as large as usual on account of the 

 harvesting and threshing. Exhibits of live stock and poultry larger than 

 usual. Largest field of horses and the best races ever seen on the grounds. 



