728 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Bar/ey— Good quality and yield. 



F/ax — None raised. 



Buckwheat— V Qxy little raised . 



3Iillet—^o\. much sown this year, as it is a crop that is usually raised on 

 land where other crops have drowned out. 



Sorghum— Yery little grown. 



Timothy — About two-thirds of a crop; very little seed saved. 



Clover — An average crop. 



Prairie hay—l^o\. much grown, but of good quality, as most of this crop 

 is harvested from sloughs, which were dry this year. 



Potatoes — The best crop for years. 



Vegetables — Good . 



Apples — Summer and fall varieties yielded well and of good quality; very 

 few winter apples grown. 



Other fruits — Yielded on an average with former years. 



Cattle — Average number and are in good condition. There is not much 

 of a demand for feeders, and prices are not so good as last year. 



Horses— Good, ones are scarce and prices range high. 



Swine— K\)o\x\. the average number raised; very little disease. 



Sheep— Yery few kept or raised. 



Poultry— Kvi average with former years both in quality and numbers 

 raised. 



Bees — Not many raised, and honey crop was not up to last year, which 

 was a record breaker. 



Drainage— A great deal of attention is being paid to this, and a large 

 amount of tiling is bting laid. 



Other industries — The creamery and canning factory are very important 

 industries, the creamery being conducted on the co-operative plan. The 

 canning factory put up over two million six hundred thousand cans of sweet 

 corn during the past season, for which the farmers receive $5 per ton. The 

 yield was large the past year, and was the most profitable one raised. 



Zawfl'^— The prices range from sixty to one hundred and ten dollars per 

 acre, but very little changing hands. 



Report of /azV— Held at La Porte City, September 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th. 

 The fair was a success financially and otherwise, all departments being well 

 filled, and that of horses surpassing all former records. 



BOONE, 



F, W, Thomas ,Ogde7i^ Iowa. 



Corn—Y\e\d will range from forty to fifty bushels per acre, 80 per cent of 

 which was undamaged by frost. 



Oats— Yielded, from twenty-tive to thirty-five bushels per acre, and tested 

 twenty-nine pounds to the measured bushel. 



Wheat— Not much raised, but was of good quality. 



Pye — Very little raised; quality, good. 



Barley— None raised. 



Flax— None raised. 



