SEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART XII. 795 



Corn — Will yield from forty to forty-five bushels per acre. 



Oats — Yielded from thirty to forty bushels per acre. 



Wheat — Winter variety yielded from twenty to fifty bushels per 

 acre, while the spring variety yielded from eight to eighteen bushels 

 per acre. 



Rye — Small acreage, which yielded from twenjty to twenty-two bush- 

 els per acre. 



Barley — Small acreage, yielding from twenty to thirty bushels per 

 acre. 



Flax — Small acreage; yielded from ten to twelve bushels and a 

 half per acre. 



Buckwheat — None raised. 



Millet — Very small acreage; none threshed. 



SoBGHUM — Good yield, but acreage small. 



Timothy — Small acreage. None threshed for seed. 



Clover — Small acreage. None threshed. 



Prairie Hay — Yielded from one and one-half to two tons per acre, 

 and was of good quality. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Acreage of alfalfa is increasing, and 

 the past season yielded from three to five tons per acre. 



Potatoes — A large acreage planted, and yielded from one hundred 

 and fifty to two hundred and fifty bushels per acre. 



Vegetables — A large acreage of onions was planted which yielded 

 from three to four hundred bushels per acre. 



Apples — Yielded a good crop. 



Other Fruits — Good crop of all small varieties. 



Cattle — Quite a number are being shipped in for winter feeding. 



Horses — Quality of breeding is improving. A great many are being 

 bought and shipped to other markets. 



Swine — Large increase in the number raised, and a great many are 

 dying with some kind of a disease that is not cholera. 



Sheep— Very few in county. 



Poultry— Doing well, and increase is large. 



Bees— There is a good supply of honey, and the quality is good. 



Drainage — Much activity along this line. Work on the large canal, 

 which is partly finished, has been stopped by an injunction; the small 

 ditch in the west part of the county is nearly finished, and another 

 ditch is to be dug in the north central part of the county. 



Lands — Prices remain firm, ranging from fifty to one hundred dol- 

 lars per acre. 



Report of Fair — Held at Onawa, September 5-7, and was successful 

 in every particular. 



MONTGOMERY. 



W. W. MERRITT, BED OAK, OCTOBER 15, 1906. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Above the normal. 

 Corn — Above normal. 

 Oats — Usual crop. 



