756 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Rye — Small acreage but good yield and good quality. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — Very small amount raised. 
Timothy — Large yield and good quality. 
Clover — Large crop, good quality. 
Prairie Hay — Not much prairie left upon which to raise prairie hay. 
Potatoes — Fine quality and good yield, probably ninety per cent of an 
average crop. 
Vegetables — Fine. 
Apples — The banner year. 
Other Fruits — Quite a quantity of peaches raised for the first year of 
peaches. 
Cattle — Many stockers, cows and young stock. Not as many fat steers 
s in some previous years, owing to the high price of corn and feed. 
Horses — More good horses and colts than any previous year, 
Sunne — Not up to the average; as in cattle the high price of feed has 
affected the quantity and quality of hogs. 
Sheep — This industry is increasing in this county. 
Poultry — Continually on the increase. It has become one of the at- 
tractions at our county fair. 
Bees — Not many. 
Drainage — Farmers are continually draining their lands. The lands 
that once were considered almost worthless have become by drainage, 
the most productive and best. 
Lands — The price has continually advanced and is now advancing. 
Farms sell from $100 to $150 per acre. 
Report of Fair— Held September 23, 24 and 25, 1908. Weather was 
perfect and attendance large. In most departments the exhibits were full 
up to the average and in some departments were a marked improvemnt. 
Our premiums were larger than in former years and the best of feeling 
prevailed. The prospects are bright for a larger and better fair the coming 
year. 
BLACK HAWK, 
F, E. HoYT, La Porte City, October 28, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Cold, wet spring; summer and. 
fall warm and dry. 
Corn — Forty bushels per acre, good quality. Sweet corn raised for 
canning factory not up to average. Price, $3.00 per ton at factory. 
Oats — Thirty-five bushels per acre; good quality. 
Wheat— None. 
Rye — Twenty bushels per acre; good quality. 
Barley — Thirty bushels per acre; good quality. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Millet — Good; not much raised. 
Sorghum — None. 
Timothy — Two and one-half tons per acre; good quality. 
Glover— Same as timothy. 
