784 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Drainage — The county is supposed to be underlain with tile but the 
work is going on just the same; we raise a crop rain or shine. 
Lands — All tillable, except orchards and groves; sells from $140 to 
$200 per acre. 
Report of Fair — September 15, 16, 17 and 18. Attendance very large; 
very heavy showing of horses, cattle and hogs; sheep light; art hall 
light; agricultural hall very good; crowd very orderly and v/eather hot, 
dry and very dusty. 
HUMBOLDT. 
John Cunningham. HrMi:oLDT. Octobkk 10, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops generally good; season 
wet until July; quite dry since that date. 
Corn — Smaller acreage than usual but a fair yield; probably thirty to 
fifty-five bushels per acre gathered. 
Oats — From fifteen to fifty bushels, probably an average of twenty-five 
bushels per acre; quality poor. 
Wheat — Small acreage; good crop. 
Rye — I know of none. 
Barley — Small acreage; average crop. 
Flax — Small acreage; average crop. 
Buckicheat — I know of none In the county. 
Millet — Very little grown. 
Sorghum — Very little grown. 
Timothy — Good crop. 
Clover — Good crop. 
Prairie Hay — Heavy crop and put up in good shape. 
Other Grains and Grasses — All other grasses and grains yielded well 
Potatoes — Fair crop. 
Vegetables — Average crop. 
Apples — Small crop of winter apples; fall varieties were a good crop. 
Other Fruits — Plums and small fruit were a light crop. 
Cattle — Condition good; quite a number condemned during the year 
by tuberculin test. 
Horses — In good condition ; prices not so high as a year ago. 
Swine — Small number of pigs; generally in poor condition; very little 
disease reported. 
Sheep — In good condition and free from disease. 
Poultry — Small number of birds but in good condition. 
Bees — Doing well; not many in county. 
Drainage — A vast amount of public drainage has been done during the 
year. Private drainage has only nicely started but preparations are 
b(fing made to drain most all low lands. 
Other Industries — Chicken picking establishment not doing as large 
a business as last year; creameries doing more business; considerable 
building has been done during the year. 
Lands— Have increased in value considerable during 1908; prices 
range from $6.5 to $125. 
