738 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Timothy — Very good. 



Prairie Hay — None. 



Other Grains and Grasses — None. 



Potatoes — Very good. 



Vegetailes — Very good. 



Apples — Not many. 



Cattle — Principally dairy. 



Horses — Not enough In the county to supply the demand and shipments 

 are coming in from the northwest. 



Drainage — Most farmers are tiling their farms. 



Lands — No increase in the price over last year. 



Report of Fair — Held at Oelwein, September 13tli to 15th, Inclusive. 

 Exhibits and attendance good. The fair association was very much 

 encouraged over the outcome. 



FLOYD. 



JAMES A. KING, CHAELES CITY, IOWA, NOVEMBER 15, 1911. 



General Condition of Croips and Season — In general, the drouth came 

 too late to materially injure small grain and was broken in time to 

 save most of the corn. Hay was generally light. The man who planted 

 and seeded early, who thoroughly prepared his seed beds, and who culti- 

 vated assiduously has a good yield of excellent quality. 



Corn — Quality very good and in most parts of the county the yield 

 is ten per cent above the average. That on very sandy ground only was 

 injured by the drouth. 



Oats — Generally very good and the yield above the average. Grass- 

 hoppers did slight damage. 



Wheat — Acreage larger than in years; quality and yield good. Spring 

 wheat yielded from 18 to 25 bushels and the late went as high as 30 

 bushels per acre. 



Rye — Do not know of any raised this year. 



Barley — Do not know of any. 



Flax — Good yield and quality; small acreage. 



Buckwheat — Do not know of any. 



Millet — Small acreage but good average yield. 



Sorghum — Do not know of any. 



Timothy — Yield about 70 per cent. 



Clover — Most of last year's seedings with small grain failed so the acre- 

 age was cut down considerable. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Two or three fields of alfalfa seeded suc- 

 cessfully. 



Potatoes — Early ones practically a failure; late ones about average. 



Apples — Unusually large yield of excellent quality. 



Other Fruits — Summer fruits injured badly by drouth. 



Cattle — Not the usual number but the grade is improving. 



Horses — In good condition. 



Swine — In good condition. 



Drainage — Lots of tile being put in. 



