7 92 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Barley — Small acreage but good quality; yield about twenty bushels 
per acre. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Millet — Small acreage. 
Sorghum — Very little raised. 
Timothy — Good crop. 
Clover — Good; average two tons to the acre. 
Prairie Hay — Good yield. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Good; fall pastures very good. 
Potatoes — Light; selling at seventy five cents per bushel. 
Vegetables — Very plentiful and of excellent quality. 
Apples — Fair crop and are bringing good price. 
Other Fruits — Good yield. 
Cattle — Cattle are in fine condition; several large breeders here. 
Horses — Doing well; we have several large breeders and importers 
of imported stock in this county. 
Swine — A great many raised and of the best breeds. 
Sheep — ^Are in fine condition; not so many raised as in former years. 
Poultry — Increasing rapidly and is fast becoming one of the profitable 
industries of the farm. 
Bees — Average crop of honey. 
Drainage — A great deal of tiling is being done at present. 
Lands — Selling for $75 to $125 per acre. 
Report of Fair — Held September 7, 8, 9 and 10. The most successful 
and the largest attended fair in the history of the society, 7,324 tickets 
being sold on Wednesday, September 9. Weather was ideal throughout 
fair; exhibits of horses, cattle and swine, large; races good and attractions 
all high grade. 
KOSSUTH. 
W. E. McDonald, Algona, October 27, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Early season very cold and 
wet, making farming conditions very bad but crops are about a sixty 
per cent average. 
Corn — Only about fifty per cent of the usual acreage planted in this 
county and about seventy-five per cent of this is good sound corn, balance 
being cut for feed. 
Oats — Will average about fifty per cent of the usual crop; early oats 
being much better than the late sown ones. 
Wheat — Very little sowed but crop was fine. 
Rye — Good crop but little sown. 
Barley — Yield good; quality good. 
Flax — Fine crop; not much sown in the county. 
Buckwheat — A very fair crop; quality good. 
Millet — Fine; yield about three tons to the acre. 
Sorghum — Yield good; sown much with millet for. cow feed. 
Timothy — Good crop, averaging about one and one-half tons per acre. 
Clover — Very fair crop. 
