798 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Report of Fair — Held first four days in September; weather was good; 
attendance large; exhibit satisfactory and the receipts show a small 
margin to the good. 
LYON. 
J. t±. Harbisox, Rock Rapids, October 14, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops generally good; the 
season has been favorable and farmers have attended to their crops at 
tne proper time. 
Corn — Best crop in the history of the county; yield will range about 
fifty bushels to the acre and the quality is good. 
Oats — Good yield but light weight; will average about thirty-five 
bushels per acre. 
Wheat — Very little, if any, wheat raised in the county. 
Rye — But very little grown. 
Barley — Crop was a good average quality; yield about thirty bushels 
per acre. 
Flax — Light acreage; yield about twelve bushels per acre. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Millet — Small acreage but excellent quality and yield. 
Sorghinn — None. 
Timothy — Good big yield; acreage increasing every year. 
Clover — More clover sown each year; crop very heavy. 
Prairie Hay — Small acreage. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Grains and grasses did generally well. 
Potatoes — Good yield and good quality; average about one hundred 
twenty-five to one hundred fifty bushels per acre. 
Vegetables — Matured in good season and of good quality. 
Apples — Crop light on account of early frost. 
Other Fruits — Crops light on account of early frost. 
Cattle — In fair condition; a majority of the farmers have dairy herds; 
feeders will be about the same as last year. 
Horses — Are improving every year; farmers getting into the larger 
breeds, such as Percherons; price high. 
Swine — Have done well; price high. 
Sheep — Increasing in number every year as they seem to do well in 
this locality. 
Poultry — Increasing every year and getting more into thoroughbred 
stock. 
Bees — A paying industry and increasing each year. 
Drainage — Natural condition very good but farmers are doing a great 
deal of sub-drainage as it enables them to work their entire farms. 
Land^ — The lands in Lyon county are second to none in the state, the 
soil is a deep black soil with a clay loam sub-soil. Lands are selling 
from $10 to $15 per acre in advance of what they were selling for eighteen 
months ago. 
Report of Fair— Held at Rock Rapids, August 25 to 28. The weather 
was fine and the fair a grand success. Entries in every department was 
heavy and visitors went away seemingly well pleased; prospects for the 
future look good. 
