TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XII 727 



CLARKE. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Below average. 



Corn — 1,441,810, pop corn 44, sweet corn 22. Total, 1,441,876 bushels. 



Oa*s— 503,145 bushels. 



Wheat— 9,901 bushels. 



Rye — 278 bushels. 



Barley — 4, 578 bushels. 



Timothy — Seed, 7,794 bushels. Hay 25,409 tons. 



Clover — 103 tons. 



Prairie Hay — 184 tons. 



Poto^oes— 22,373 bushels. 



Cattle— 22MS. 



Horses— S, 970; mules 466. 



St^ine— 29,690. 



/STieep— 2,673. 



PoMKri/— 205,508. 



Report of Fair — None. 



CLAYTON. 



H. A. AXTELL, STKAWBEERY POINT, OCTOBEB 31, 1911. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Excellent. 

 C07-n — Large crop; excellent quality. 

 Oats — Same. 

 Barley — Good quality. 

 Flax — None raised here. 

 Buckwheat — Very little raised here. 

 Sorghum — Quite a little manufactured here. • 

 Timothy — Considerable marketed here this fall. 

 Prairie Hay — None. 



Potatoes — Large crop; excellent quality. 

 Vegetables — Plenty for local consumption; good quality. 

 Apples — Immense crop this year. 

 Other Fruits — Plentiful this year. 



Cattle — Very few in feeding; practically all dairying in this vicinity. 

 Sioine — Has been a very successful year for swine. 

 Sheep — Very few in the county. 

 Poultry — Large numbers shipped from here. 

 Bees— Very few. 



Drainage — Considerable tiling done. 



Lands — Bringing good prices, averaging from $80 to $135 per acre. 

 Report of Fair— Held at Strawberry Point September 5-6-7-8, 1911. Rain 

 on Wednesday and part of Thursday morning. 



CLAYTON. 



HENRY LUEHSEN, GARNAVILLO, SEPTEMBER 27, 1911. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Good average crop; farmers 

 are well pleased. The dry weather in July put a little damper on the 



