870 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Prairie Hay — Small acreage. 

 Potatoes — Fair yield. 

 Vegetables — Good. 

 Apples — Splendid. 



Other Fruits — Good, except peaches. 

 Cattle — Never better. 

 Horses — Never better. 

 Swine — Never better. 

 . Sheep — Never better. 

 Poultry — Good. 

 Bees — Have done well. 

 Drainage — On the increase. 

 Lands — Increasing in value. 



Report of Fair— Held at Tingley, September S, 9, 10, 11, 1909. Weather 

 was imfavorable but the fair was considered a success. 



SAC. 



S. L. W.VTT, SAC CITY, OCTOBER 26, 1909. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Early part of the season very 

 wet and backward, making the fields very weedy. A big freeze the sec- 

 ond week in October. 



Corn — Crop forty per cent short but of good quality. 



Oats — Light yield, but heavy and of good quality. 



Wheat — Good quality but small acreage. 



Rye — Not much raised but good quality. 



Barley — Considerable raised; quality good. Many using barley as nurse 

 crop for seeding. 

 • Flax — Small acreage; quality good. 



Buckivheat — Small acreage, but fair crop and of good quality. 



Millet — Very good and lots raised. 



Sorghum — Lots raised and of good quality; used for syrup and feed. 



Timothy — A fine quality and seeded very heavy. 



Clove)' — First crop somewhat damaged by weather; second crop not so 

 good and did not seed very well on account of dry weather. 



Prairie Hay — First class, but not much left here. 



Other Grairis and Grasses — Blue grass fine, making excellent pasture; 

 red top good; alfalfa not much raised and not a success yet. Sweet corn 

 is being raised by many farmers and pays well on account of canning 

 factory. 



Potatoes — Good acreage; fair crop. 



Vegetables — Turnips, cabbage, pumpkins and squash not very good. 



Apples — Very large but of poor quality; crop damaged by early freeze. 



Other Fruits — Plums and cherries very poor; raspberries, blackberries 

 and grapes good. 



Cattle — Have done well; very little disease; many raised; big price; 

 many fine herds of different breeds. 



Horses — Bringing big prices; many colts being raised; quality fine. 



Swine — Very healthy, but young pigs are scarce. 



