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Other Fruits — Cherries an average crop; plums and grapes good; bush 

 fruit very good. 



Cattle— Not many feeding cattle raised; feeders shipped in; feeding 

 conditions about normal. 



JETorses— Good lot of colts; quality improving rapidly. 



Swine — Good deal of disease, otherwise hogs are doing well. 



Sheep — Light crop. 



Poultry — Good crop. 



Bees — Poor, 



Drainage — Considerable county and private drainage. 



Other Industries — Normal. 



Lands — Increasing in value but not much changing hands. 



Report of Fair — None. 



DAVIS. 



H. C. LEACH, BLOOMFIELD, OCTOBEE 6, 1911. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Only fair. 



Corn — About one-half crop. 



Oats — About one-fourth crop; quality good; about the usual acreage. 



Wheat — ^About two-thirds of a crop; quality fair. 



Rye — Acreage small; fair crop; quality good. 



Barley — None raised. 



Flax — None raised. 



Buckwheat — Practically none sown this year on account of the dry 

 weather. 



Millet — Short crop; quality good. 



Sorghum — About the average acreage; quality fine. 



Timothy — Crop somewhat light; about one-half an average crop. 



Prairie Hay — None raised. 



Other Grains and Grasses — All somewhat short on account of drouth. 



Potatoes — Almost a failure; too dry. 



Vegetables — Same as potatoes. 



Apples — Large yield; quality good. 



Other Fruits — About the same as apples. 



Cattle — Scarce. Farmers sold off their herds quite closely during the 

 dry seasons of 1910-11. Quality is good, however. 



Horses — The usual number; mostly draft horses. 



Swine — Average number in the county. Poland-Chinas and Duroc Jer- 

 seys predominate. 



Sheep — More sheep than ever in the county and they appear to be 

 doing well. 



Poultry — Very plentiful. 



Bees — Scarce, 



Drainage — Lots of talk about it but not much being done. 



Lands — Selling from $50 to $150 per acre and advancing all the time. 

 Farmers take quite an interest in building up their land by sowing clover 

 as a fertilizer. 



