858 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Oats — Average crop. 



Wheat — Fair. 



Bye — Fair. 



Barley — Fair. 



Flax — None grown. 



Buckwheat — Poor. 



Millet — Poor. 



Sorghum — Good. 



Timothy — Very good. 



Clover — Very good, but short on seed. 



Prairie Hay — Good. 



Other Grains and G7'asses — Grains a little short on account of dry 

 weather, but grasses during early part of the season were fine. 



Potatoes — Very poor. 



Vegetables — Very poor. 



Apples — None at all. 



Other Fruits — Some of the early fruits fair. 



Cattle — Beef cattle situation improving. Improvement and progress in 

 number of dairy cattle rapidly increasing. 



Horses — Average condition and about the normal number. 



Swine — Improvement on last year in freedom from hog cholera. Some 

 of the herds affected, but, on the whole, the disease seems to be checked, 

 vaccination becoming a more common practice. 



Sheep — Few in the county; condition fair. 



Poultry — Poultry about the average. 



Bees — Season not very satisfactory. 



Drainage — Not very much drainage work being done as compared with 

 other years. 



Lfinds — Advancing in price but sell much slower than in the last two 

 years. 



Report of Fair — Iowa Dairy Congress held October 12th-18th, inclusive. 

 On account of the rainy weather during the entire week the attendance 

 was not what it should have been. In point of exhibits, quality and num- 

 ber of cattle and other attractions and displays the fair was a success. 

 From the very nature of the association there can be no question of 

 its tremendous money value to agricultural interests of this section. 



BREMER. 



J. Q. LAUER, WAVERLY, OCTOBER 7, 1914. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Good. 



Corn — Good; yielding an average of forty bushels. 



Oats — Good, some rust. 



Whefit — Not much raised. 



Rye — Good. 



Barley — I know of none. 



Flax — None. 



Buckivheat — Fair crop but not much raised. 



Millet — Good but not much raised. 



Sorghum — Good but not much raised. 



