710 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



Drainage — Above the average. ' 



Other Industries — Good. 



Lands — Increasing some. 



Report of Fair — Held at Greenfield, September 12, 13, and 14, inclusive. 



■ ^ ADAMS. 



GEO. E. BLISS, CORNING, OCTOBER, 1911. 



Corn — Will yield about one-half a crop; that on new land or sod will 

 make a little more and that on stalk ground a little less. Good quality. 



Oats — Yielded 21 bushels; quality excellent. 



Wheat — Averaged 26 bushels for winter and 91/^ for spring. A large 

 acreage of winter wheat is being drilled this fall. 



Rye — Very little rye raised. Twenty-two bushels was harvested per acre. 



Barley — Cut short by the drouth, but yielded on the average of 23 bushels 

 per acre and the quality was excellent. 



Flax — None raised in this county. 



Buckwheat — Only three fields in the county, but the yield was IZVz 

 bushels per acre. 



Millet — Very little sown — cut half a ton per acre. 



Sorgum — Extra good; promises big returns in molasses. 



Timothy — Pine quality; yielded nearly one ton per acre. 



Clover — Yielded well; excellent quality; being baled and shipped out. 



Prairie Hay — Fine this year. Acreage small. 



Potatoes — Nearly a failure; tubers about as large as walnuts. 



Vegetables — Small yield but excellent quality. 



Apples — Largest crop in ten years; beautifully colored. 



Other Fruits — 'Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries almost a total 

 failure. 



Cattle — Small number but in good, thrifty condition. 



Horses — Farms are well stocked and they are in fine condition. 



Swine — The usual number; no disease to speak of now, although some 

 died last spring. 



Sheep — More than the usual number; all are thrifty and fat. 



Poultry — Adams county excels in fine poultry. More at the county fair 

 this year than ever before. 



Bees — Honey in abundance this year. 



Drainage — Great deal of tile in this county. 



Other Industries — ^Creameries are flourishing. Seventy-five per cent of 

 the farmers sell cream. 



Lands— Changing hands at from $75.00 to $150.00 per acre. 



Report of Fair— Held at Corning, September 11, 12, 13, 14, inclusive. 



ALLAMAKEE. 



J. E. O'BRIEN, WAUKON, OCTORER 10, 1911. 



General Condition of Crops and Season— Season .opened favorably, all 

 crops grew rapidly during April and May and the first days of June. After 



