1038 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRfCULTURE. 



Potatoes.- — Early varieties good, late varieties fair. 



Vegetables. — Excellent. 



Apples. — Small yield and of fair quality. 



Cattle. — The usual number raised and are in good condition. Also 

 about the usual number of feeders. 



Horses. — A great many colts raised the past season. 



Swine. — The usual number raised and no disease reported. 



Sheep. — Very few kept or raised. 



Poultry. — Large num.bers raised. 



Bees. — Good. 



Drainage. — More tiling being done this year than usual. 



Lands. — Very little changing hands, prices remain the same as last 

 year. 



Report of Fair. — Held at Hampton Sept. 12-1.5. Exhibits were large 

 in every department and the exhibition was a success in every respect, 

 excepting financially, heavy rains preventing the attendance which we 

 would otherwise have had. 



GRUNDY. 



E. G. ENSMINGER, GRUNDY CENTER, OCT. 5, 1905. 



General Condition of Crops, Etc. — The early part of the season was 

 wet and cold and unfavorable for crops, especially corn, which extended 

 up to about the fifteenth of June. Unusually favorable conditions there- 

 after has made the season all that could be wished for, as there have 

 been no killing frosts up to date of making this report. 



Corn. — Indications are that it will yield an abundant crop of good 

 quality. 



Oats. — Yielded from 35 to 50 bushels per acre and were of good 

 quality. 



Wheat. — Small acreage. 



Rye. — None raised. 



Barley. — Average crop; quality good. 



Flax. — None raised. 



Buckwheat. — Very little raised. 



Millet. — Small acreage but yielded well and was of good" quality. 



Sorghum. — None raised. 



Timothy. — Yielded an excellent crop of both hay and seed. 



Clover. — Good. First crop heavy and second growth very good, mak- 

 ing the hay crop this year above the average. 



Prairie Hay. — None raised. 



Potatoes. — Larger acreage than usual planted, which yielded well 

 and was generally of good quality. 



Vegetables. — Good both in quality and yield. 



Apples. — Duchess and Wealthy are the prevailing varieties raised, 

 which produced only a fair crop this season. 



