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Other Grains and Grasses — Alfalfa is being tried here and promises to 

 make good. 



Potatoes — Early potatoes half crop. Late ones very poor. 



Vegetables — Good yield and quality excellent. 



Apples — Short crop; what we have are badly worm eaten. 



Other Fricits — Smaller fruits of excellent quality and good yield. 



Cattle — About usual number. Shipments of finished stuff below aver- 

 age; feeders and stockers in good demand at high prices. 



Horses — A slow sale, with about the usual number. 



Sivinc — Fine lot of spring pigs. No sickness among hogs here. Prices 

 for stock and fat hogs good. 



Sheep — Industry increasing. 



Poultry — This industry is par excellence. 



Bees — No large apiaries. Quite a number of people have a few col- 

 onies. 



Drainage — Good natural drainage. 



Other Industries — Conditions good with brighter prospects ahead. 



Lands — Quite a number of farms changing hands because we have 

 some of the best lands in the country. Prices from $125 to $200 per acre. 



Report of Fair — Fair held at Milton, Iowa., September 16th-19th, 1914. 

 We only had one good day on account of rain which made our attendance 

 light and receipts not enough to pay expenses. Otherwise we would have 

 had an excellent fair. 



WAPELLO. 



H. R. BAKER, ELDOX, OCTOBER 28, 1914. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Unusually early and favor- 

 able season for all crops. Wheat marketed from machines on July 3d, 

 ten days earlier than usual. Too dry during July and August. 



Corn — Good average crop, good quality and pretty good acreage. A 

 little short on account of dry weather in August. 



Oats— Good yield and good quality. 



Wheat — Above the average in quality and acreage. 



Rye — Very good quality; not much sown. 



Barley — None. 



Flax — None. 



Buckwheat — None. 



Millet — Not much sown. 



Sorghum — Good, but short acreage. 



Timothy — Good crop of good quality. Average about one and one- 

 half tons to acre. 



Clover — Heavy crop of clover, and of fine quality. 



Prairie Hay — None. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Some experiment with alfalfa which is 

 proving profitable and satisfactory. 



Potatoes — Light crop, poor quality. 



Tegetables — Fair. 



Apples — Hardly an average crop. 



Cattle — About the usual amount of cattle in the country, not much 

 improvement. 

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