NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 757 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Other Grains and Grasses — None. 
Potatoes — Below average but good quality. 
Vegetables — Good average crop. 
Apples — Large crop, good quality. 
Other Fruits — All good; large crops. 
Cattle — Many cattle; good condition. 
Horses^ — Good increases; high prices. 
Swine — Large number of pigs; no disease. 
Sheep — Very few. 
Poultry — Average number of birds raised; prices high. 
Bees — Large crop of honey; twelve to ten cents per pound. 
Drainage — Great deal of tiling done. 
Other Industries — Some sugar beets raised but results not very satis- 
factory. 
Lands — Advancing in price. 
Report of Fair — Held September 15, 16 and 17, 1908. Weather good; 
average attendance. 
BOONE. 
W. C. Treloak, Ogden, October 16, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — The general condition of the 
crops are good; the season was very wet in the spring. 
Corn — Pretty good. The early corn is good while the late is a little 
soft. 
Oats — Most of the oats are light. 
Wheat — Small acreage but very fair quality; average yield about twen- 
ty-two bushels per acre. 
Barley — Very little sown. 
Timothy— Timothy was very good; mostly made for hay, very little 
threshed. 
Clover — Good quality of seed but not very heavy yield. 
Prairie Hay — Scarcely any. 
Potatoes — Below an average on account of wet season. 
Vegetables — Very fair. 
Apples — Good yield of early apples but no winter varieties. 
Cattle — The country is stocked with good grade cattle and a few 
bunches of pure breds are to be found. 
Horses — Our horses are first-class as was evidenced by our large ex- 
hibit at the fair this year. This department attracted the most attention. 
Simne — Good average number raised; well bred; some disease. 
Sheep — A few sheep are fed. Not much interest taken in raising 
sheep; those fed are from the west and southwest. 
Drainage — Probably more county drains in Boone county than any 
county in the state. 
Lands — Worth from $80 to $125 per acre. 
Report of Fair— Held at Ogden, September 14, 15 and 16, 1908. De- 
lightful weather and good attendance. The management were out on 
phe grounds early and late trying to make all arrangements agreeable to 
