NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 789 
JEFFERSON. 
D. R. Beatty. Fairkikli), Octoi?i:r 24, 1908. 
General Co7idition of Crops and Season — Good. 
Corn — Good; large acreage. 
Oats — Fair; fair acreage. 
wheat — Good; small acreage. 
Rye — Good; small acreage. 
Barley — Good; small acreage. 
Flax — None sown. 
Biickivlieat — Small acreage. 
Millet — Small acreage. 
Sorghum — Small acreage. 
Timothy — Good; fair acreage. 
Clover — Good; good seed crop. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Potatoes — Fair. 
Vegetables — Good. 
Apples — Good crop. 
Other fruits — Good. 
Cattle — Good. 
Horses — Good; best show for years. 
Swine — Good. 
Sheep — Small. 
Poultry — Good. 
Bees — Small. 
Drainage — None except farm tile; large amount of tile being laid. 
Other Industries — Good. 
Land — In good state of cultivation and producing good crops. 
Report of Fair— Held September 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1908. One of the best 
shovv'ings of stock had for several years. 
JOHNSON. 
George A. Hitchcock, \o\\x City, October 2, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Very wet in the spring; so 
much so that getting the crops in was much delayed and early crop of 
corn was a poor stand and weedy before it was plowed the first time. 
Corn — Notwithstanding a cold spring a warm September has made a 
good crop. 
Oats — Were rusty so that the yield was not up to the average. 
Wheat — Good; some yields reported thirty bushels to the acre. 
Rye — Fair. 
Barley — Good; both in quality and yield. 
Buckivheat — Not much raised. 
Timothy — Good; heaviest crop in years and well filled out. 
Clover — Very heavy; rain made it a hard crop to handle. 
Prairie Hay — None here to amount to anything. < 
Potatoes — Hardly an average. 
Vegetables — Most all were good. 
