808 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Apples — Not very good; light yield. 
Other Fruits — Fair. 
Cattle — ^Did well owing to good pasture during the fore part of the 
season. 
Horses — Horses are handled by farmers and the disposition seems to 
be to improve. 
Swine — Hogs are light, owing to loss of young and high price of corn. 
Sheep — Good. 
Poultry — Good. 
Bees^ — Good. 
Drainage — Farmers are draining their lands; many miles of tiling has 
been put in the past year. 
Other Industries — Prosperous. 
Lands — Values on land seem to advance and they are in a good state 
of cultivation. 
Report of Fair — August 18, 19, 20 and 21. Receipts were light, owing 
to bad weather and the fact that farmers were too busy to leave their 
harvest and work. Receipts at the gate were over $300 less than last 
year and we had larger expenses in the way of attractions, etc. 
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J. C. Beckneb, Clarixda, Octob?:r, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Spring was extra fine and 
crops were put in in good condition but about the middle of May rain 
caused delay in attending to the corn and made it too wet for oats and 
wheat. Grass, hay and pasture was fine and stock did well on same. 
Corn — Corn on old ground and bottom land is very spotted. Some 
very fine corn on sod, I think about eighty bushels per acre and of very 
good quality. 
Oats — Very badly rusted, about ten to thirty bushels per acre and 
only about twenty to twenty-five pounds per bushel measure. 
Wheat — Considerable was too heavy and lodged and was wet and hard 
to cut; only a few pieces making thirty to thirty-five bushels per acre. 
Rye — Very little sown. 
Barley — Very little sown, except mixed with early oats; fair crop. 
Flax — None raised that I know of. 
Buckwheat — Very little sown. 
Millet — Extra good and more sown than usual on account of the land 
being to wet for corn in many places. 
Sorghum — Very little raised in the county; what was planted was 
good. 
Timothy — Quality of hay and seed both extra good. 
Clover — Early clover hay was very heavy but was lOO wet to cure 
very good; second crop and seed extra good. 
Prairie Hay— Very little but what we have is extra heavy, somewhat 
mixed with weeds. 
. . Other Grains and Grasses— Very little but what wo have is extra 
Other Grains and Grasses — Some very good speltz grown this year; 
the blue grass was good all season. 
