NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 791 
Other Industries — Good. 
Lands — Land advancing rapidly. 
Report of Fair — Held August 31, September 1, 2, 3 and 4. Excellent 
weather; large attendance and was a financial success. 
JONES. 
L. W. RrSSKLL, AXAMOSA, OCTOHKR 15, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Reason — Season very dry, damaging 
small grain. 
Corn — Crop about average and better than last year; quality fine. 
Oats — Fair croj); quality good but runs a little light. 
Wheat — None. 
Rye— Yevy little 
Barley — Not much raised but what there is is of good quality and yield. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Millet — None 
Sorghum — None. 
Timothy — Good crop; quality fine. 
Clover — Good. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Potatoes — About one-half a crop; quality good. 
Apples — Large crop. 
Cattle — Not much feeding being done this year on account of the 
high price of grain; plenty of milk cows. 
Horses — More than ever; prices low. 
Swine — Nearly all shipped out. 
Sheep — Very few in county. 
Poultry — Interest in poultry on the increase. 
Bees — Not many. 
Drainage — Farmers take great interest in tiling and are gradually 
draining all wet land. 
Lands — Prices on the increase and many farms changing hands. 
Report of Fair — Held August 26-30, inclusive. More stock than ever 
before; showing in all departments fine; people well pleased; large at- 
tendance first three days but did not give a fair on the last day on ac- 
count of rain. 
KEOKUK. 
Geo. A. Poff. What Cheer, October, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season— Good; above the average. 
Corn,— Large acreage; large yield, about forty to sixty bushels per acre. 
Oafs— Will average from twenty-five to thirty-five bushels to the 
acre and is of excellent quality. 
Wheat — Larger acreage than for some time past; yielded from twenty 
to fifty bushels per acre. 
Rye — Small crop. 
