764 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
llyQ — Not enough to make an estimate. 
Barley — Fair; not much planted. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None raised. 
Millet — Some millet; fair crop. Yield below average on account of 
low ground being too wet. 
Sorghum — Very little raised. 
Tiynothy — Good; more than an average crop; put up in good shape. 
Yield one and one-half tons per acre. 
Clover — Good; put up in good weather. Prospects for a good seed 
crop. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Potatoes — Fair; below average. 
Vegetables — Fair to good. 
Apples — Short crop; very few to market. 
Other Fruit — Some peaches; light crop; few plums. 
Cattle — Big supply; not many being fed on account of scarcity of corn. 
Horses — More than an average number. 
Swine — Short crop of pigs. 
Sheep — More than an average; some demand for more. 
Poultry — Light supply of young poultry on account of wet spring. 
Bees — Fair to good season; not many raised. 
Drainage — Above the average amount of tile put in. 
Lands — Raising in value; up ten to twenty per cent. 
Report of Fair— Held August 31, September 1, 2 and 3, 1908. Attend- 
ance about as usual; expenses less than ordinary; all premiums paid and 
money to the good. People were pleased. Not so much stock exhibited 
on account of scarcity of feed. 
CEDAR 
F. H. Connor, Tipton, October 27, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Good. 
Corn — Little above average. 
Oats — Light yield but early oats good quality. 
Wheat — Not much raised, but what there was was of good quality and 
large yield. 
Rye — Good crop but not much planted. 
Barley — Average and good quality. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — Good quality and fair yield. 
Millet — None. 
Sorghum — Very little planted. i 
Timothy — Very good quality and big stand. 
Clover — Very good quality and big stand. 
Prairie Hay — Very good quality and big stand. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Same as above. 
Potatoes — Good crop. 
Vegetables — Very good crop. 
Apples — Crop not very good. 
