724 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Other Grains and Grasses — None to speak of. 



Potatoes — Early potatoes poor; late ones good. 



Yegetahles — Good; plenty of all kinds. 



Apples — Extra good; going to waste .on the ground. Trees overloaded 

 with large fruit. 



Cattle — Fair supply at home and many are being shipped in from 

 South Dakota and other points. 



Horses — Good horses are scarcer than a year ago; prices high. 



Swine — Plenty; very little cholera. 



Sheep — Not a great many; some disease in the larger herds. 



Poultry — Good poultry plentiful. 



Bees — Not a very good year; quality of the honey is good, however. 



Drainage — Most of this county is drained out. 



Other Industries — Very prosperous. 



Report of Fair — Held at Tipton, September 5-8, inclusive. Unfavorable 

 weather but all departments were well filled and those in attendance de- 

 clared it the best fair ever held in Cedar county. Good attractions. 



CERRO GORDO. 



AETHUK PICKFOBD, OCTOBER, 1911. 



General Condition of Gro.ps and Season — The season opened in good 

 time and until the latter part of June there has seldom been a season of 

 such vigorous growth and splendid promise. However, the lack of rainfall 

 began to tell on all crops and while some crops were a total failure others 

 were fairly good. 



Corn — On clay subsoil and tile drained fields the crop varies from fair 

 to good but on sandy soils, with gravel subsoil, the crops are poor. 



Oats — Very badly injured by smut, both early and late varieties being 

 affected. In general the early oats yield better than the late ones. The 

 straw was good and the yield about one-half to two-thirds of a good crop. 



Wheat — Very good quality and generally a good yield. The mixed oats 

 and wheat yielded better than wheat alone. 



Rye — Good quality but quite short in the straw. More rye being sown 

 than heretofore. 



Barley — The yield per acre was light but the crop was saved in good 

 condition. 



Flax — More sown than usual and the crop was of good quality and 

 cleaner than usual. 



Buckwheat — ^Very little buckwheat was sown. 



Millet — A good deal of millet was sown on account of the short hay 

 crop. The growth was remarkable and the weather for curing it was 

 excellent. 



Sorghum — Not as much raised as formerly but the crop was good. 



Timothy — Despite the poor hay crop much timothy was cut for seed 

 and growers realized high prices. 



Clover — Last spring's seeding was almost a total failure. No clover 

 was cut for seed and hay was one-fourth of a crop. 



