804 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Rye — Good crop. 
Barley — Fairly good crop. 
Flax — Quality good; not much raised. 
Buckwheat — Good. 
Millet — Very little raised. 
Sorghum — None raised. 
Timothy — Crop good. 
Glover — Good. 
Prairie Hay — None raised. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Very good crop. 
Potatoes — Crop only a fair one. 
Vegetables — Yield and quality good. 
Apples — A very light crop. 
Other Fr'uits — Only a fair yield of small fruits. 
Cattle — In good condition; Shorthorns predominate. 
Horses — The grade is generally improving; prices continue high. 
Swine- — Average number; no disease. 
Sheep — Small flocks; good condition. 
Poultry — In good condition; prices high for eggs and poultry. 
Bees — In moderately good shape. 
Drainage — Land is being tiled where at all necessary. 
Lands — A good demand for lands in this county by eastern farmers; 
prices high. 
Report of Fair — Fair held at Osage, September 15, 16, 17 and 18. The 
weather was excellent; attendance good, exhibits fine and the fair <.was 
a success. 
MONONA. 
A. W. Burgess, Onaw^a, September 25, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Good for the year; early 
spring fine for getting crops in; no rain in April; rained nearly every 
day during May and into June, which made it next to impossible to get 
into fields to cultivate. 
Corn — Good quality and fairly good yield; acreage about the same 
as last year. 
Oats — Fair quality and average acreage. 
Wiheat — Mostly winter wheat; good quality and more than the aver- 
age acreage. 
Rye — None. 
Barley — Very little. 
Flax — None. 
Buckwheat — None. 
Mine*— Very little; hay only. 
Sorghum — Very little, if any. 
Timothy — Average acreage; hay only. 
Clover — More being sown every year, especially of alfalfa class; good 
crops. 
Prairie Hay — Below average yield; good quality. 
