742 . IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



dollars ($1,000.00), providing however, that the board of supervisors 

 shall first have submitted to the legal voters of the county a propo- 

 sition therefor, and voted for by a majority of all persons voting 

 for and against such proposition at a general or special election; 

 notice to be given as provided in section four hundred twenty-three 

 (423) of the supplement to the code. And the board of supervisors 

 shall not exceed in the purchase of such real estate, the amount so 

 voted for. The title of such real estate when purchased to be taken 

 in the name of the county, and the board of supervisors shall place 

 such real estate under the control and management of an incor- 

 ported county fair society, as long as an annual county fair is main- 

 tained by such corporation on said real estate. And said corporation 

 is authorized to erect and maintain buildings and make such other 

 improvements on said real estate as is necessary, but the county shall 

 not be liable for such improvements, or the expenditures therefor. 

 Th right of such county fair society to the control and manage- 

 ment of said real estate may be terminated by the board of super- 

 visors whenever well conducted agricultural fairs are not annually 

 held thereon." 



REPORT OF AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS BY 

 COUNTIES. 



ADAIR. 



J. E. BROOKS, GREENFIELD, OCTOBER 18, 1906. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — The season was favorable 

 for nearly all crops to fully mature, and for corn and oats more favorable 

 than for several years. This particular locality has been favored with 

 eeasonable rains, although the total rainfall was below normal, and pond3 

 and water-courses are low at this time. 



Corn — Will be above the average, both in quality and yield. A great 

 deal more than usual was cut for fodder. 



Oats — Excellent, both in quality and yield. Extra heavy grade, often 

 weighing forty pounds to the bushel. 



Wheat — Very little raised. 



Rye — Practically none raised. 



Barley— None raised. 



Flax — None raised. 



Buckwheat — Small patches only, and few of them. 



Millet — None raised. 



Sorghum — Very little raised. Only one cane-mill, to my knowledge, 

 within a radius of ten miles of Greenfield. 



Timothy — Not a heavy crop, owing to there not being suflBcient moist- 

 ure early in the season, but the quality was good and a large percentage 

 was cut for seed. 



