780 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Potatoes — Poor crop; too dry. 
Vegetables — Average. 
Apples — Eighty per cent of an average crop. 
Other fruits — Fair. 
Cattle — Good condition. 
Swine — Healthy. 
Sheep — Healthy. 
Poultry — Healthy. 
Lands — Selling from $90 to $125 per acre. 
Report of Fair — Held September 1-4 inclusive. 
HARRISON. 
W. H. WiTHROW, Missouri Valley, October 19, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Early rains very much re- 
tarded planting, and consequently all planting was late; the corn crop 
will be much lighter than last year, although the acreage will be about 
the same. 
Corn — Crop will be lighter than for several years, particularly on the 
low lands where the planting was delayed on account of too much rain. 
Oats — The yield will be about the average and of fair quality. 
Wheat — An increased acreage, particularly in winter wheat; yield and 
quality was very good for the season; farmers are very much encouraged 
on this crop, and will sow considerably more this fall and winter. 
Rye — Acreage about an average with former years; quality and yield 
fair. 
Barley — Acreage about same as former years; yield and quality only 
fair. 
Flax — Very little raised in this county. 
Buckwheat — Acreage not very heavy; yield and quality about an 
average with last year. 
Millet — Very good crop on high lands but very light on the low lands 
on account of too much rain in the spring. 
Sorghum — An average acreage with about an average yield. 
Timothy — An increased acreage over last year and a good crop. 
Clover — Acreage about the same as in former years with a good yield 
on land that was not too wet. 
Prairie Hay — The usual good yield, except where high water pre- 
vailed. 
Potatoes — Too much rain in the spring made planting late; quality 
not up to the average; yield much lighter than usual. 
Vegetahles—'Did very well, with a good yield where not damaged by 
too much rain. 
Apples — Very good crop but not so good as in 1906; several young 
orchards produced good crops and more trees will be planted next spring. 
Other Fruits — Very good crop of strawberries and blackberries, but 
other small fruit did not appear to yield good. 
Cattle — Very little summer feeding in this county but prospects are 
that a large number will be fed the coming winter. 
