812 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
POWESHIEK. 
James Nowak, Malcom, October 30, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Weather conditions too wet 
in spring; quite warm in summer and very hot and dry in September. 
C07-n — A very good crop and ninety per cent of it of good sound 
quality; average yield is about thirty-seven and one-fourth bushels per 
acre; price high. 
Oats — A fair yield; average about twenty-seven and one-fourth bushels 
per acre; price good. 
Wheat — Not much raised but a good yield; good quality and good price. 
Average about eighteen bushels per acre. 
Rye — Not much raised but is of fair quality; about twenty bushels 
per acre and the price is fair. 
Barley — Good fair crop; quality good; price good and about an aver- 
age of thirty bushels per acre. 
Flax — None raised here. 
Buckwheat — ^Very little raised. 
Millet — Very little raised. 
Sorghum — Not much grown; but a good yield. 
Timothy — A good hay crop this year. 
Clover — Good crop. 
Prairie Hay — None grown; land all under cultivation. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Pastures were good all the year up to 
September when they suffered from drought. 
Potatoes — A smaller yield than usual; good price. 
Vegetables — All garden truck was good. 
Apples — A fair crop of fall and winter apples. 
Other Fruits — Most fruit suffered from a frost late in the spring; not 
as large a crop as usual. 
Cattle — Doing well and an average number raised; price good. 
Horses — ^In good demand and good prices except that there was a 
slump of about fifty dollars per head on account of the panic of 1907, 
but a good part of that has been recovered. 
Swine — Good prices have prevailed except for about three months last 
winter, caused by the panic of 1907. 
Sheep — Not many raised; price of wool now low. 
Poultry — Good prices and in good demand. 
Bees — Lots of honey this year. 
Drainage — More attention given to drainage every year. 
Lands — Lands are advancing in price steadily; prices are from $90 
to $150 per acre. $110 is about the average for a good improved farm. 
Report of Fair— Held August 18 to 20 and was a successful fair in 
every way. Exhibits were good in nearly all departments; attendance 
good and the weather was ideal. There was no gambling of any nature 
permitted. 
