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Potatoes — Early varieties of good quality and yield, while late va- 

 rieties were of good size but only a few in a hill. 



Vegetables — Good. Tomatoes fine, and pickles good. 



Apples — Fair crop. 



Other Fruits — Good. The largest crop of peaches in years. 



Cattle — Are in fine condition, considering condition of pasturage. 



Horses — Are in a healthy condition, and the usual number of colts. 



Swine — Most of the early crop of pigs died, while the late ones are 

 in a healthy condition. 



Sheep — Usual number of lambs; wool good. 



Poultry — Large amount raised. 



Bees — Forepart of the season was very favorable for gathering of 

 honey, while the latter part has been too dry. 



Drainage — Some tiling done. 



Other Industries — There are none, this being a strictly farming 

 county. 



Lands — The highest priced farm that was sold in this neighbor- 

 hood this year was at the price of one hundred and tfiirty-five dollars 

 per acre; improvements and building thereon were only fair. 



Report of Fair — Held at Wilton Junction, September 18-21, and 

 was a success in every particular, the weather being favorable, at- 

 tendance good, and every department well filled with excellent ex- 

 hibits, which was especially true of the horse, cattle and swine depart- 

 ments, in which extra accommodations had to be provided. 



O'BRIEN. 



RAY R. CRUM, SUTHERLAND, OCTOBEE 23, 1906. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Never better. 



Corn — Usual acreage planted, and will yield from forty-five to sixty- 

 five bushels per acre. 



Oats — Very good. Yielded from forty to fifty bushels per acre; 

 some grain lost in shock when waiting for shock threshing. 



Wheat — Small acreage, fair crop. 



Rye — Very little raised. 



Barley — Yielded from thirty to forty bushels per acre, of good 

 quality and good price obtained. 



Flax and Buckwheat — None raised. 



Millet — Small acreage, and mostly raised for seed this year, of 

 which the yield was fair. 



Timothy — Good crop. 



Clover — A very successful crop in this section of the county, and 

 for seed this year is turning out quite well. 



Potatoes — Very good yield; some cases of rotting in the ground re- 

 ported. 



Vegetables — Goo d . 



Apples — A splendid crop. Northwest Iowa is getting to be quite 

 an apple district, and some winter Varieties do well. 



