NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 771 
Swine — Cholera destroyed a large number in some parts of the county. 
Sheep — Several herds of fair size; others of only a few head. 
Poultry — Average condition. 
Bees — Very few bees kept. 
Drainage — Very little tile drainage in the county. 
Report of Fair— Held September 16, 17 and 18, 1908. 
DAVIS. 
H. C. Leach, Bloomfield, October 23, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops generally late on ac- 
count of the excessive rains in May and June. 
Corn — Medium acreage; early corn good but late corn light and chaffy. 
Oats — Fair acreage; quality inferior; light yield. 
Wheat — No spring wheat raised; small acreage of winter wheat but 
yield and quality good. 
Rye — Small acreage; yield fair and quality good. 
Barley — None raised. 
Flax — None raised. 
Buckwheat — None raised to speak of. 
Millet — Acreage fair; yield good; quality of hay and seed both good. 
Sorghum — Small acreage but good quality. 
Timothy — Large acreage; excellent quality of hay; yield of seed fair 
and quality fair. 
Ciover — Best crop of hay and seed ever raised in the county. 
Prairie Hay — About all gone. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Blue grass good; good quality and large 
yield. 
Potatoes — Usual amount planted; yield fair and quality excellent. 
Vegetables — Fair, both in quality and quantity. 
Apples — Only a few small orchards; late frost in the spring killed 
most of the blossoms but w^hat there were were of fine quality. 
Other Fruits — Small crop of peaches; quality mostly fine; plums fair; 
pears most all killed by frost; strawberries good. 
Cattle — Quite an interest taken in breeding good breeds of cattle; 
Polled Angus and Shorthorns predominate, although Herefords and Jer- 
seys are raised quite extensively. 
Horses — Are extensively bred and raised in this county; draft horses 
predominate; some road horses are raised. 
Swine — Great many raised and farmers take quite an interest in 
building up the breeding quality. Both Poland China and Jersey Reds 
are bred extensively. 
Sheep — Farmers are taking quite an interest in sheep, both in the 
quality and quantity. Nearly all our sheep raisers make good money 
on same. 
Poultry — Quantity and quality both good and is rapidly becoming one 
of the leading industries of the county. 
Bees — Wintered well and have done w^ell most of the season, producing 
quite a good deal of honey. 
Drainage — Fair. Farmers beginning to use tiling for flat lands. 
