SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART X. 1045 



Clover. — An excellent crop, both of hay and seed. 



Prairie Hay. — None raised. 



Other Grains and Grasses. — Excellent; pastures were never better. 



Potatoes. — Fair yield and of good quality. 



Vegetahles. — Good. 



Apples. — Small yield and of poor quality. 



Other Fruits. — Yielded well and were of excellent quality. 



Cattle. — Have done well and are in a healthy condition. 



Horses. — A great many raised and are of good grade. 



Swi7ie. — With a few exceptions, have done well the past season and 

 are in a healthy condition. 



Sheep — Industry increasing. Have done well the past season and are 

 in a healthy condition. 



PouUry. — Large number raised and have done well the past season. 

 Raising of pure bred fowls increasing. 



Bees. — Very few kept. 



Drainage. — Good. 



Lands. — Values are increasing. 



Report of Fair. — ^.Heid at Winfield, Aug. 21-25. On account of unfav- 

 orable weather, attendance was not as large as expected but the fair 

 was a success in every other particular, exhibits in every department 

 being large and of excellent quality . 



HUMBOLDT 



JOHN CUNXIXGHAM, OCT. 11, 1905. 



General Condition of Crops, etc. — Good. The early part of the sea- 

 son was wet and necessitated replanting much of the corn on low ground. 

 There has been no frost up to date. 



Corn. — Of good quality and will yield an average of 35 bushels per 

 acre. 



Oats. — Quality good and will average thirty-two bushels per acre. 



Wheat. — No winter wheat sown, spring wheat yielded well and was 

 of good quality. 



Rye. — Very little sov/n; yield and quality good. 



Bay-ley. — Very little sown; yield and quality good. 



Flax. — Very little grown. 



Buckicheat. — None raised. 



Millet. — Very little sown. 



Sorghum. — Very little raised. 



Timothy. — Hay crop good; selling at $4 per ton in stack. Seed crop 

 lair. 



Clover. — ^Hay crop good; selling for $4 per ton in stack. Seed crop 

 fair. 



Prairie Hay. — Good. Selling for $3 per ton in stack. 



Other Grains and Grasses. — Good. 



Potatoes. — Poor, selling for fifty cents per bushel. 



