SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART XII. 751 



Report of Fair— Held at Alta, August 21-24. Up to the standard of 

 former years. Large and excellent exhibits in every department. Rain 

 the last day cut the attendance considerable. 



BUTLER. 



J. V. GREGORY, ALLISON', SEPTEMBER 25, 1906. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Crop was above the average 

 of the past four years. The season has been favorable and farmers 

 Taave been enabled to attend to their crops without serious diflBculty. No 

 frost to date; corn well out of way. 



Corn — Best in years. Quality excellent, and yield will be large. 

 Sample ears have been exhibited taken from fields that will yield seventy 

 bushels per acre. 



Oats — Very good, although a little light in weight. 



Wheat — Small acreage, but quality good. 



Rte — Of average yield and quality. 



Barley — Very little raised. 



Flax — ^Very little raised. 



Buckwheat — Small acreage, but yielded a good crop. 



Millet — Raised on wet lands; always of good quality. 



Sorghum — None raised. 



Timothy — Very good. 



Clover — Not a large amount raised but was of good quality. 



Prairie Hay — Heavy yield and was put up in good condition. 



Potatoes — An unusually heavy yield of large, solid potatoes of the 

 finest quality. 



Vegetables — Abundant and of good quality. 



Apples and Other Fruits — Excellent, both in quality and yield. 



Cattle — A large number of breeders in this county, and stock Is of 

 the best. A profitable industry, and feeding operations are carried on in a 

 scientific manner. 



Horses — Of a good grade. 



Swine — Probably more hogs fed in this county than any other animal. 

 They rapidly grow into money, and the farmer has learned this fact. 



Sheep — Very few in this county. 



Poultry — Quite a number of people in this county have made a spe- 

 cialty of poultry, realizing that it is one of the industries that pays. 

 We have several poultrymen who have only the highest grade birds and 

 ship eggs all over the country. 



Bees — Not very many, although the industry is followed 'quite exten- 

 sively by a few. who make it pay. 



Drainage — Farmers and landowners are seeing more the need of good 

 drainage, and in the next^ two or three years there will be more done 

 than ever before. The general conditions, however, in relation to drain- 

 age, are good. 



Other Industries — Very few, other than agricultural. 



