SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART X. 1051 



Clover. — Good. First cutting damaged to great extent by rains. 



Potatoes. — Early varieties good; late varies. 



Vegetables. — Generally good. 



Apples. — Poor. 



Other Fruits. — Grapes good; raspberries and blackberries good. 



Cattle. — iln good condition. No disease or ticks reported. 



Horses. — Good ones demand high prices. 



Swine. — In good condition; no disease reported. 



Sheep. — Small exhibit at fair, but animals shown were well bred. 



Poultry. — A profitable industry, and the exhibit in this industry at 

 our fair was large and many select birds were shown. 



Bees. — Did fairly well. Season too wet for gathering a good crop of 

 honey. 



Lands. — Advancing in price, with very few farms for sale. 



Report of Fair. — Held at Newton, Sept. 12-15. On account of unfav- 

 orable weather in the shape of heavy rains throughout the days of the 

 fair, it was not the success it would otherwise have been. 



JEFFERSON 



R. C. SAYERS, FAIRFIELD, SEPT. 25, 1905. 



General Condition of Crops, etc. — While the early part of the season 

 was too wet, general condition of crops is good. 



Corn. — ^-Season was too wet for low and undrained land. Corn on the 

 high and well drained land will yield a large crop of excellent quaity. 



Oats. — Good. 



Wheat. — Good; small acreage but yielded an average crop. 



Rye. — Good. 



Barley. — Very little raised. 



Flax. — None sown. 



Buckwheat. — Very little raised. 



Millet. — Small acreage but yielded a good crop. 



Sorghum. — iVery little milled. 



Timothy. — Good. 



Clover. — ^An increase each year; crop good. 



Prairie Hay. — None raised. 



Potatoes. — Good. 



Vegetables. — Large crop. 



Apples. — Poor, both in quality and yield. 



Other Fruits. — Fair, except peaches. 



Catte. — Many good cattle raised. 



Horses.— tAU classes are raised and good prices are obtained. 



Swine. — Have done well; market good. 



Sheep. — Not many raised or kept, but have done well the past season. 



Poultry. — Good. 



Bees. — Did not do well the past season. 



Drainage. — Fair. 



