802 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Barley, Flax and Buckwheat — None grown. 



Millet and Sorghum — Very little grown. 



Timothy — Poor crop. 



Clovter — Medium. 



Prairie Hay— Fair. 



Potatoes — Good, both in yield and quality. 



Vegetables — Yield and quality good. 



Apples — An abundant crop. 



Other Fruits — Thousands of bushels of peaches rotted on trees and 

 ground. 



Cattle — Are doing well, very few being fed at present. 



Horses — Have done well. 



Swine — Cholera has played havoc with a great many herds, other- 

 wise they have done well. 



Sheep — Very few kept. 



Poultry — Has done well. 



Bees — Very few kept, and did not do well the past season. 



Drainage — Considerable tile is being laid, mostly in sloughs. 



Lands — Very little changing hands. Prices range from ninety to one 

 hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre. Farmers are generally con- 

 tented. 



Report of Fair — Held at Shenandoah, August 13-17. Weather was 

 very hot, exhibits good and attendance large. 



PALO ALTO. 



p. v. HAND, EMMETSBURG, OCTOBER 17, 1906. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops in general are the 

 best we have had in ten years, or I might say in the history of the 

 county. The early spring was rather wet, and on this account some 

 lands were not cropped, but we had ideal weather for haying and harvest- 

 ing and the past month just enough rain to keep late pasturage in 

 good condition and at the same time not too much to interfere with 

 fall plowing. 



Corn — Will yield an average of forty-five bushels per acre and is of 

 very good quality, well ripened before frost. Some fields will yield sev- 

 enty-five bushels per acre, but these are exceptions. 



Oats — Yielded an average of about thirty-five bushels per acre, 

 machine measure, and overrun in weight about 10 per cent. The yellow 

 variety was of better quality and yield than the white. 



Wheat — Is not raised extensively in this county, a ten-acre field being 

 rare, and most of the farmers do not raise any at all. Fifteen bushels 

 per acre is considered a good crop here, and is more than most of 

 them get. 



Rye — Small acreage, but yielded a very good crop. 



Barley — Yielded about forty bushels per acre, and quality better than 

 average, as the weather was very favorable at harvest time and most of 

 the crop was stacked and threshed without being damaged by rain. 

 Dealers say that the color is very good. 



