752 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
Horses — Especially good quality of young colts; good horses are in 
good demand and selling at good prices. 
Swine — In a good healthy condition and are selling at good prices. 
Sheep — An average number. 
Poultry — Average number birds raised and are selling at good prices. 
Bees — On account of heavy crop of clover, bees have been doing very 
nicely and have put up a splendid supply of honey. 
Drainage — An unusual amount of tiling has been done this season, 
redeeming many hundreds of acres of land. Our tile factory here can't 
supply the demand. 
Other Industries— ^e would not neglect to mention the cows of this 
county, which pays the grocery bills of more than 90 per cent of the 
farmers of this county. The creameries of this county ship hundreds of 
tons of butter annually. 
Lands — Lands are fast becoming very valuable and selling from $65.00 
to $125.00 per acre. 
Report of Fat?-— September 8 to 11, 1908, were the dates of our fair. 
We had a splendid fair, with the best showing of stock and all other 
products that have been here for many years, and was a financial success. 
ADAIR. 
A. C. Savage, Adaie, Octobee 21, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and /Season— Good. Spring backward, wet 
and cold; summer fine. Frost injured small portion of the corn crop. 
Corn — One of the best crops in this vicinity in fifteen years. Of fine 
quality. A small portion of the late corn injured by frost; price 50 cents. 
Oats — Light and of poor quality. Yield about 20 bushels per acre. 
Price 40 cents. 
Wheat — Fair quality. 
Rye — ^Very little raised and only for feed. 
Barley — Very little grown for feed. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Millet — None. 
Sorghum— A little for feed. Yielded well. 
Timothy — Good. Not as much cut for seed as usual. 
Glover — Fine crop and good yield. Considerable cut for seed. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Potatoes — Fair; somewhat small; fair yield. 
VegetaUes — Good. 
AppZes— Better crop than expected. Nearly all varieties yielded well. 
Other Fruits — Strawberries and small fruit light; peaches fair. 
Cattle — Have not done as well as usual; too wet. Good prices prevailed 
during most of the year. Feeding will be light on account of the high 
price of corn. 
fi'orses— Stock improving and believe there are more horses than a 
year ago. Market has been slow but prices good. 
