THIRTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIV 899 



Millet — ^Very little grown. 



Sorghum — None raised. 



Timothy — A good crop and fine quality. 



Glover — Fair crop. 



ProArie Hay — Not any. 



Other Grains and Grasses — None to speak of. 



Potatoes — Good crop and good quality. 



Vegetables — Very good; plenty of all kinds. 



Apples — Very scarce; less than half a crop. 



Other Fruits — Plentiful; plums went to waste. 



Cattle — Good. A good many in the county but not as many being 

 fed as last year. 



Horses — Scarce; quality good. 



Swine — Good crop; not much cholera. 



Sheep — An average number on the farms. 



Poultry — Good; increasing year after year. 



Bees — Not many; honey scarce. 



Drainage — County most all drained out. 



Other Industries — Increasing. 



Lands — Very high; ranging from $125.00 to $250.00 per acre; not 

 many sales this year, however. 



Report of Fair — Held September 3-6. A successful fair. Our net 

 profits above expenses was $1,100.00. 



CERRO GORDO. 



ARTHUR PICKFORD, MASON CITY, OCTOBEK 15, 1912. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — All crops have been better 

 than for several seasons past. Weather has been favorable. 



Corn — Good stand. Crop was about two weeks late in ripening but 

 conditions are average. 



Oats — Better than for many years; yielding from 50 to 80 bushels 

 per acre and the quality excellent. 



Wheat — Not in many years has there been so good a crop of wheat 

 of such excellent berry. Spring wheat has again become one of the 

 staple crops and some are successful in growing winter wheat. 



Rye — Not a good crop, owing mostly to the fact that it is largely 

 raised to furnish fall and early spring pasturage, and because of too 

 close grazing the grain yield was small and poor. 



Barley — Not much barley grown here. Quality and yield fair. 



Flax — What little was grown was of excellent quality and fair yield. 



Buckwheat — Not enough grown to report on. 



Millet — Only a limited amount grown as a catch crop. 



Sorghum — None grown. 



Timothy — A great deal more than the usual amount of timothy was 

 cut for seed. It was of fine quality and the yield better than common. 



Clover — No clover hay on account of a total failure for two years. 

 Spring sown seed shows up very fine and if it is not winter killed we 

 shall have a big 1913 crop. 



