TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART XII 849 



Wheat — Acreage very small; yield and quality good. 



Rye — None raised. 



Barley — About fifty per cent yield as compared with last year; quality 

 poor; average about sixteen bushels per acre. 



Flax — Not grown in this county. 



Buvkioheat — None raised. . 



Millet — Average quality and yield; acreage less than heretofore. 



Sorghum — Small acreage; yield is good and stalks strong and large. 



Timothy — Fully an average crop and yield. Acreage about as in former 

 years. 



Clover — Hay crop good; none threshed yet for seed. 



Prairie Hay — Lands in this county are too valuable to admit of leav- 

 ing them uncultivated for the purpose of using the hay growth thereon. 



Other Grains and Grasses — The foregoing covers about all the grains 

 and grasses grown in this county. 



Potatoes — Yield about eighty-five per cent of last year's crop; quality 

 good. 



Vegetahlcs — About fifty per cent of last year's crop. Cabbage very 

 light and unsound; onions good quality and fair yield; beets small yield 

 but good quality. 



Apiiles — Very few orchards in the county. Yield fiil'y an average of 

 past years. 



Other Fi'uits — An average yield. 



Cattle — Not as many fed as in past years, but all the farmers have a 

 few. The quality of feed is good and farmers are raising a good grade 

 of stock. 



Sicine — Crop better than last year. No disease reported. 



Sheep — A number of farmers are buying breeding ewes and those who 

 have been in the business several years report good increase. Very few 

 shipped in for feeding. 



Poultry — Considerable attention given to poultry, increasing the num- 

 ber and quality. One squab farm with about seven thousand squabs on 

 hand. 



Bees — Few kept. This season has not been favorable for honey-making. 



Drainage — Thousands of tile have been laid the past year. 



Other Industries — Concrete blocks and machines for making same 

 manufactured here. Also have a creamery. A cement tile and curb man- 

 ufacturing plant in process of organization. 



Lands — Increasing in value and productiveness. Considerable farm 

 building being done. Farms being cut up into smaller farms each year. 



Report of Fair — Held at Rock Rapids, August 31. September 1. 2, ?., 

 1909. Rain interefered greatly with the atteendance but receipts were 

 sufScient to meet expenses. 



