NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 779 
HANCOCK. 
Jas. L. Manuel, Britt, Skptembkr 30, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Crop of corn very irregular 
and spotted; some early pieces of corn fairly good crop but late plant- 
ings did not mature. Oats light weight and about half a crop; barley 
very good; hay good, and pastures have been good. 
Corn — -Sixty per cent of an average crop; two-thirds of same safe from 
frost. 
Oats — Light yield and weight; price forty-four cents per bushel. 
Wheat — Good crop and good quality; price eighty cents per bushel. 
Rye — Not much grown; not enough to give an estimate. 
Barley — Good crop; price about fifty cents. 
Flax — Not much raised here. 
Buckwheat — Not any to amount to anything. 
Millet — Fair. 
Timothy — Good. 
Clover — Good. 
Prairie Hay — Good; not much here. 
Other Grains and Grasses — All grasses good. 
Potatoes — Fairly good crop; some rotting in the ground. 
Vegetables — Good. 
Apples — One-half crop. 
Other Fruits — Good. 
Cattle — About the average number of cattle in the county. 
Horses — About normal. 
Sivine — Less than an average owing to the scarcity of corn last year. 
Sheep — Increasing. 
Poultry — About an average. 
Bees — About normal. 
Drainage — More than usual amount being done. 
Other industries — No change. 
Lands — Values from $60 to $100 per acre. 
Report of Fair— Held September 22. 23 and 24, 1908. 
HARDIN. 
H. S. Martin, Eldora, September 17, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Corn has been late but dry 
warm weather has put most of it out of the way of danger from frost. 
Corn — Average. 
Oats — Twenty-five to fifty bushels per acre. 
Wheat — Fair: not much raised. 
Barley — ^Good. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Sorghum — Good. 
Timothy — Good; one-half to two tons per acre. 
Clover — Good. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
