864 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Drainage — Good. 



Other Industries — Prosperous. 



Lands — Pi'ices high; still advancing and hard to get. 



Report of Fair— Held at Shenandoah, August 9. 10, 11, 12, 13, 1909. 

 Good record attendance, and the most satisfactory meeting ever held. Will 

 perhaps make for clear profit the cost of our improvement this year, which 

 is around 52,500. 



PALO ALTO. 



M. C. L.XRSKX. K.M.METSBURG. 



General Condition of Crops and (Reason — We had ideal spring weather 

 for putting in crops up until May 22d, when wet w-eather set in. This 

 continued until the first of July, thus leaving quite a numher of fields un- 

 planted. However, we had dry weather during haying, harvesting and 

 thrashing. 



Corn — On well tiled land it yielded from 50 to 60 bushels per acre 

 and of good quality. We had a killing frost October 16th. 



Oats — Good quality but light yield. 



Wheat — Small acreage but yielded from 15 to 22 bushels per acre. 



Rye — Fair crop but small acreage. 



Barley — Poor crop. 



Flax — None raised. 



Buckwheat — Very little sown. 



Millet — Fair crop. 



Sorghum — None raised. 



Timothy — Yielded a large crop. 



Clover — Above the average and was put up in good condition. 



Prairie Hay — Heavy crop. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Blue grass and white clover has taken hold 

 of the pastures and cattle have done well. 



Potatoes — Very heavy crop and of excellent quality. 



Vegetables — Root crops rather light but tomatoes in abundance all sea- 

 son and a good supply stored away for winter use. 



Apples — Early varieties below average; fall apples average crop; very 

 few" winter apples. 



Other Fruits — Raspberries and blackberries yielded a heavy crop; 

 gooseberries and currants an average yield; strawberries poor. 



Cattle — In excellent condition as pastures have been good. 



Horses — Farmers are raising more colts than usual and horses are 

 selling at good prices. 



Sioine — Have done well but pig crop was rather light last spring. 



Sheep — Are more extensively raised then formerly; some farmers have 

 as many as 300 sheep and report good profits. 



Poultry — ^Have done well the past season. 



Bees — Not as good as usual. 



Drainage — A good deal of tile has been laid the past season and 

 farmers are hauling tile for next season. 



