NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 777 
Clover — Good crop. 
Prairie Hay — None; some slough hay of fair quality. 
Potatoes — Increase in acreage over former years; yield from eighty 
to two hundred twenty-five bushels per acre; quality not as good as last 
year. 
Vegetables — Good crops. 
Apples — Orchards small; yield good. 
Other Fruits— Good crop of all small fruits. 
Cattle — Good many in the county and in hne condition. 
/Worses— Good grades; plenty of draft horses; drivers scarce. 
Swine — Great number in county; no cholera reported. 
Sheep — Not many in tae county. 
Poultry — Great number of all the best varieties. 
Bees— Not many in the county; yield of honey good. 
Draiwa^re— County is well drained by small streams. 
Other Industries— Brick and tile factories doing a thriving business. 
Lands— Rolling prairie with good natural drainage; selling from $100 
to $140 per acre. 
Report of Fair— Held at Grundy Center, September 8, 9 and 10. 
Weather fine; attendance good; exhibits good and fair was a financial 
success. 
, ' GUTHRIE. 
Thomas E. Grisell, Guthrie Center, October 24, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — The season was very favorable 
for an average crop. 
Corn— Large acreage and an average crop of good quality; the quality 
being far better than the crop of 1907. 
Oa^s— Quality of grain excellent but small yield to the acre. 
W/iea^— Winter wheat went about thirty bushels to the acre and was 
of fine grade; spring v/heat went from ten to fifteen bushels to the acre. 
Rye — Not enough sown to make an estimate. 
Barley — Not enough sown to make an estimate. 
Flax — None raised. 
Buckwheat — None raised. 
Millet — Small acreage; only sown on wet bottom lands. 
Sorghum — None raised, except for forage. 
Timothy — A bumper crop and saved in good condition. 
Clover — Small crop, and used mostly as a fertilizer. 
Prairie Hay — Guthrie county has passed the wild hay period. 
Potatoes, — Fair crop. 
Vegetables — The season was favorable for a large crop. 
Applcs-^'Not enough to base an estimate. 
Other Fruits — Average crop of berries; plums and cherries a failure 
on account of late frost in the spring. 
Cattle — Cattle will go into the winter in fine condition; not so many 
steers being fed as usual on account of the high price of corn and stock 
cattle. 
