888 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Drainage — Fair. 

 Other Industries — Excellent. 

 Lands — Increasing in value. 



Report of Fair — Held August 24th-28th, inclusive. Largest and most suc- 

 cessful fair ever held. Weather conditions favorable. 



JONES. 



L. W. RUSSEL, ANAMOSA, OCTOBEE 14, 1914. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Good. 

 Corn — Good crop of corn. 

 Oats — Average yield. 

 Wheat — Light crop. 



Rife — Average crop. '| i , 



Barley — Good crop. 

 Flax — None raised. 

 Buckioheat — Very good. 

 Millet — Good. 

 Sorgli um — Fair. 

 Timothy — "Very good. 

 Glover — Very good; better than usual. 

 Prairie Hay — Good. 

 Other Grains and Grasses — All good. 

 Potatoes — Average crop. 

 Vegetables — Good. 

 Apples — Not very good. 

 Other Fruits — Average crop. 

 Cattle — Average number. 

 Horses — Plentiful. 

 Sioine — Plentiful. 

 Sheep — Average number. 

 Poultry — Fine. 

 Bees — Not very favorable. 

 Drainage — Good. 

 Other Industries — Fair. 

 Lands — Good and advancing in price. 



Report of Fair — Held August llth-14th, inclusive. Best fair in the his- 

 tory of the association; also the largest gate receipts. 



KEOKUK. 



GEO. A. POFF, WHAT CHEER, OCTOBER 12, 1914. 



General Condition of Crops dnd Season — Unfavorable on account of 

 drouth. 



Corn — Large acreage and the yield will average from forty to sixty 

 bushels per acre. 



Oats — Average acreage. Straw is short on account of dry weather. 



Wheat — About the same acreage as last year. 



Sorghum — Very little raised; quality good. 



