946 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE . i 



Potatoes — Fair yield; quality good. ; 



Vegetables — Abundant. 



Apples — Poor crop. 



Other Fruits — Abundant. 



Cattle — Scarcity of young stock. 



Horses — About the average. 



Svnne — A nice lot of pigs. 



Sheep — Increasing. 



Poultry — About the average number of chicks. Not so many turkeys 

 as usual. 



Bees — Poor. 



Drainage — Progressing. 



Other Industries — Cement and tile factory doing a flourishing busi- 

 ness. 



Lands — Prices increased about 25 or 35%. 



Report of Fair — Held August 6-10. Very good exhibits but attendance 

 was not up to standard on account of wet weather. 



POTTAWATTAMIE. 



CALEB SMITH, AVOCA, OCTOBER 19, 1912. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Very dry until about the 

 first of September. 



Corn — Twenty-five per cent better than the year 1911. 



Oats — ^Very good; yield as high as 70 to 75 bushels per acre. 



Wheat — Better yield and quality than has been threshed the last 30 

 years; 44 bushels winter wheat and 24 spring wheat reported threshed. 



Rye— Very little raised in this county. 



Barley — Good; not much raised. 



Flax — None raised. 



Buckwheat — Not any. 



Millet — Not much raised. 



Sorghum — Not much grown. 



Timothy — Light crop on account of dry weather early in season. 



Clover — Same as timothy. 



Prairie Hay — Late rains helped it some but not an average crop. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Alfalfa about an average crop. More of 

 it raised as farmers begin to realize its value. 



Potatoes — 25% better than the 1911 crop. 



Vegetables — Quality and quantity above the average. 



Apples — ^Very light crop. 



Other Fruits — Plums abundant, grapes average, cherries plentiful. All 

 berries about 80% of an average crop. 



Cattle — In good condition and prices high. 



Horses — Are in good demand and each year there is an increase in 

 the number of foals and the quality is improving. 



Swine — At present writing they are doing well. Some lo^s by dis- 

 ease earlier in the season. 



