FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART XIV. 955 



Clover — A fair crop. 



Prairie Hay — Good. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Small patches of alfalfa were sown this year 

 and it did remarkably well. 



Potatoes — A good average crop. 



Vegetables — All kinds are good. 



Apples — Better than the average year. 



Other Fruits — All fruits a good, fair crop. 



Cattle — In fair condition, pastures a little too dry. 



Horses — In good condition, pastures a little too dry. 



Sicine — A large number of hogs have been taken by cholera. At pres- 

 ent the disease has abated somewhat. 



Sheep — In good condition. 



Poultry — In good condition. 



Bees — In good condition. 



Lands — A good many sales have been made during the summer and 

 fall. Prices range from $115 to $225 per acre; average farm and improve- 

 ments worth $140 per acre. 



Report of Fair — Held afRock Rapids on August 25-29. Good weather 

 prevailed and our fair was a grand success, financially and every other 

 way. 



MAHASKA. 



C. F. MOHYER, NEW SHAIJOX, SKPTEJIBEK 22, 1913. 



Corn — Will average one-half crop. 



Oats — A bumper crop; good quality and average yield about 40 bushels 

 per acre. 



Wheat — Small acreage; good quality.. 



Rye — Very little grown. 



Barley — None. 



Flax — None. 



Buekwheat — None. 



Timothy — Fair; yield about llij tons per acre. 



Clover — Never better. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Practically none. 



Potatoes — ^Very poor. 



Vegetables — Poor. 



Apples — Large yield but inferior quality. 



Other Fruits — Small fruits poor on account of dry weather. 



Cattle — Scarce and few on feed; some being shipped in for feeding. 



Horses — Good ones are scarce and high in price. Farmers are not 

 breeding as many as in past years. 



Swine — We have a great many pigs but they are dying with cholera. 



Sheep — Very few sheep. 



Poultry— Better quality. One of our most profitable industries. 



Bees — Very few but doing w^ell. 



Drainage — Very few tile put in this year; too dry. 



Lands— Our best farms run from $125 to $250 per acre and a great 

 many changing hands. 



Report of Fair — Held September 15-19 at New Sharon and on the 

 whole it was a very profitable fair. 



