694 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



GRUNDY COUNTY. 



J. W. Pepperman. 



The annual meeting of the Gundy County Agricultural Society was 

 held in Grundy Center, September 8, 9 and 10, 1903, and was a very suc- 

 cessful fair. All departments were well filled, with the exception of the 

 division for cattle, which was not as lar.ge as usual. 



The attendance was very good considering the rainy weather, but 

 was not as large as it would have been had the weather been good. Not- 

 withstanding the unfavorable weather conditions we were able to pay all 

 premiums in full, and are in good condition for a successful fair another 

 season. 



The oat crop was very light, yielding an average of twenty-five bush- 

 els per acre, but was of the usual quality, testing twenty-three pounds to 

 the bushel. 



Some fields of corn are exceptionally good, and will yield from sixty 

 to eighty bushels per acre, while others are poor and will not yield over 

 fifteen to twenty-five bushels per acre. It will average about thirty-five 

 bushels per acre. 



The hay crop was above the average, both in quantity and quality. 



Potatoes were a good crop, some yielding as high as two hundred 

 bushels per acre, and will average one hundred bushels per acre. 



GUTHRIE COUNTY. 



A. H. Grisell. 



Fair held at Guthrie Center, September 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1903. 



Although unfavorable weather prevailed, there being but tv/o days 

 of the week that it did not rain, the receipts were sufficient to pay ail 

 expenses and premiums in full, and with a small balance over. 



The season was an unusually wet one, and while it was conducive to 

 the growth of oats, wheat and hay, which gave promise of an abundant 

 harvest, excessive rains ruined a large part before it could be safely cared 

 for. There is an abundance of rough feed to carry stock through the 

 winter. 



About 60 per cent of the corn matured, but will not yield an average 

 of more than thirty bushels per acre. No killing frost has visited this 

 county up to date of this writing (October 14th). 



HANCOCK COUNTY. 



John- 8. Fisk. 



Fair held at Britt, September 15, 16 and 17, 1903. 



The attendance was very light, owing to rain and cold threatening 

 weather prevailing throughout the fair. 



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