SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART XII. 785 



Rye — Small acreage, but fair crop. 



Barley — Small acreage, but good yield. 



Flax — None grown. 



Buckwheat — Very little grown. 



Millet — Small acreage, but yielded an excellent crop. 



Sorghum — Practically none grown. 



Timothy — Light yield, but of excellent quality. 



Clover — Average yield of good quality. 



Prairie Hay — Very little grown. 



Potatoes — Of good quality, and yielded about one hundred bushels 

 per acre. 



Apples — Good yield and fair quality. None grown for export. 



Cattle — In fine condition. Pastures good all season. Majority of- 

 farmers have dairy herds and sell milk and cream to the creameries. 



Horses — Scarce and high in price. Everybody is raising colts. A 

 good number of high class pure bi'ed stallions in county. 



Swine — Not hardly up to the usual avei'age in numbers. In good de- 

 mand. No cholera or other disease reported. 



Sheep — Few in number and high in price. 



Poultry — A prominent industry, and large numbers are shipped an- 

 nually. 



Drainage — A great deal of tile drainage has been done the past sea- 

 son, the local works at Central City supplying principally all the ma- 

 terial used. 



Lands — Very little changing hands. Prices range from sixty-five to 

 one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre. 



Report of Fair Held at Central City, September 11-14, and was 



one of the most successful ever held in the county, the attendance being 

 exceptionally large and many added features. The special corn exhibit, 

 with Professor Holden in charge, created much interest, as did also the 

 students' judging contest. The live stock exhibit was pronounced by 

 Professor Thomas Shaw to be the best that he had ever seen outside of a 

 State fair. Our fair has discontinued the racing programme, with the 

 most satisfactory results. The fair was a financial success, as well as 

 pleasing all tnose in attendance. 



LOUISA. 



J. R. SMITH, COLUMBUS JUNCTION, SEPTEMBER 20, 1906. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — The season has been favor- 

 able. Local showers were well distributed and generally sufficient in 

 quantity, except a lack of sufficient rain in the month of June short- 

 ened the hay and oat crop to some extent. 



Corn — In excellent condition, very near all being safe from danger 

 of damage by frosts at this date. It is estimated that the yield will 

 average ninety-five per cent of a full crop. 



Oats — Light yield, and not of the best quality. Sixty per cent. 

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