770 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Barley — Medium quality; yielded about twenty-five to thirty bushels 
per acre. 
Flax — None raised. 
Buckwheat — None raised. 
Millet — None raised. 
Sorghum — None raised this year. 
Timothy — Good quality and a full crop. 
Clover — Good crop and of good quality. 
Prairie Hay — None raised. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Fair to good. 
Potatoes — Early potatoes not very good and late potatoes not yet dug. 
Vegetables — Plentiful and of good quality. 
Apples — Medium crop and quality. 
Other Fruits — Peaches plentiful and mostly of good quality. 
Cattle — Very good and plentiful; prices holding quite firm. 
Horses — More colts being raised; good horses scarce; price holding 
firm. 
Swine — ^Not so many raised this year on account of the high price of 
corn. 
Sheep — Quite a large number raised. 
Bees — None raised. 
Drainage — Fair; a good deal of tiling done this year. 
Lands — In active demand; prices ranging from $85 to $150 per acre. 
Report of i^m?-— Held September 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1908. The fair was 
very successful; the attendance w^as good; w^eather ideal and exhibits 
were of good numbers with the exception of the stock exhibit, which 
was smaller than in former years. 
CRAWFORD. 
A. A. Conrad, Arion, October 1, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Fair. Had a very cold, wet 
spring, continuing until nearly midsummer; extremely cool in August 
and hot and dry in September. 
Corn — Fair yield; some of the late corn chaffy. 
Oats — Badly rusted; yield about twenty bushels per acre. 
Wheat — Yield about seventeen bushels per acre; good quality. 
Rye — Very little raised. 
Barley — Fair yield. 
Millet — Fair; about three ton per acre. 
Timothy — ^Very good; about two and one-half tons per acre. 
Clover — Good; from two to three tons per acre. 
Prairie Hay-^Not enough to count raised. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Some few patches of alfalfa; three cuttings 
yielding from two to two and one-half tons per acre each cutting. 
Potatoes — Nearly a failure. 
Apples— Frost in May destroyed nearly all the blossoms. 
Other Fruits — Small yield. 
Cattle — Not many being fed on account of high priced corn. 
Horses — About the average number; quite a few young colts. 
