SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART X, 1019 



Corn — In better cribbing condition than for many years, and unless 

 an early snow, will harvest a greater average yield than for many years. 



Oats — Are above the average in quality, and not below in quantity. 



Wheat — Acreage smaller than usual, but crop much better in quality, 

 and above the average of this county in quantity. 



Rye — Only a small acreage, but of excellent quality and average 

 quantity. • 



Barley — For the most part, of exceptional quality, and binned in most 

 excellent condition. 



Flax — None raised of any moment. 



Buckwheat — None I'aised. 



Millet — Matured early and of excellent quality, and immense yield. 



SorgJium — Very little raised, but was matured well and worked up 

 into the finest product of many years. The stalks were more than usually 

 succulent. 



Timothy — Of abundant quantity and average quality, except, possibly, 

 of less nutrient quality than the average. 



Clover — iWas an immense crop, but like other grasses, too succulent to 

 be a good keeper without excess of drying. 



Prairie Hay — Verj- little in the country, but of excellent quality and 

 above the average quantity per acre. 



Potatoes — Early varieties were of excellent quality and above the 

 average in yield per acre; about the usual acreage. Late varieties did 

 not do so well, nor were they of average quality. 



Yegetahhs — Almost all vegetables were above the average in quality 

 and yield, and some surprising results were obtained in many varieties*. 



Apples — Apples were not abundant nor of good quality, the early var- 

 ieties being moderately plentiful but knotted and wormy and altogether 

 unsatisfactory. Of the late varieties, very few, cofparatively matured, 

 and were not of very good quality. 



Other Fruits — Small fruits, for the most part, were of excellent quality 

 and average yield. Strawberries and raspberries were abundant and of 

 excellent quality; grapes were scarce but of good quality. 



Cattle — About the usual number of calves were raised, but not so 

 many being fattened. Most of the farmers are doing no feeding, but the 

 large feeders put, if anything, more cattle on the market than any year 

 before in the history of the country. 



Horses — About the usual numoer of colts were raised, and a large 

 number of good horses shipped to other markets, while as many western 

 horses were shipped in and sold to the farmers as were disposed of. 



Sivine — A large number of swine were marketed from this point the 

 last season, and a large number raised. This is the center of the swind 

 growing industry of Iowa, and the county has been especially free from 

 cholera the past season. 



Sheep — A large number of sheep have been shipped into this county 

 the past season and but few shipped out. Farmers in general seem to be 

 going into this industry. 



