NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 793 
Prairie Hay — P"'ine. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Not much grown here. 
Potatoes — Yield about seventy per cent of usual crop; quality good. 
Vegetables — Good. 
Apples — Some orchards loaded while others are entirely bare owing 
to early frosts. 
Other Fruit — Good. 
Cattle — Did better in the latter part of the season, owing to improved 
conditions of the weather; prices low but farmers are feeding quite a 
good many for Christmas delivery. 
Horses — Fine; prices ruling strong and demand good for heavy farm 
horses. 
Swine — Very little trouble, if 'any, from cholera among the hogs of 
this county and farmers as a rule are paying off their debts from this 
source alone. 
Sheep — Too wet in early season for sheep but the wool clip was fair 
and many farmers keeping a few to trim up the pastures and fence 
corners; prices low. 
Poultry — The usual amount raised this year. 
Bees — The few hives kept in this county are paying well this year 
owing to the immense vegetation on account of the wet spring weather. 
Drainage — We are just commencing; farmers are busy putting out tile 
and more was used this year than in all of the preceding years put to- 
gether. 
Other Industries — Much attention has been given to the public roads 
of the county this year and the townships and county supervisors are 
co-operating with the farmers in tiling them out and keeping grades in 
repair. 
Lands — Values are some higher than last year; farms selling from 
$50 to $85 per acre and there seems to be a good demand for better 
tenants and better tiled farms. 
Report of Fair— Held August 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1908. The exhibits far 
exceeded anything ever shown at our county fair; the stock and farm 
products being specially selected for prize winning. The races were well 
attended and some of the best horses in Iowa entered in these races. 
Attendance was the largest ever known; premiums were paid in cash 
a.nd all exhibitors seemed satisfied with the treatment received. No 
gambling of any kind was allowed on the grounds. 
LEE. 
Chris Haffxer. Doxxelsox, October, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Too much rain in the fore 
part of the season but some of the crops fairly good. 
Corn — Seventy-five per cent of an average crop. 
Oats — Very light yield; quality poor. 
Wheat — Very good yield; quality good. 
Rye — Very good; not much grown. 
Barley — None. 
Flax — None. 
