816 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Millet — Heavy crop but hard to cure for feed because of thick stalks 
and heads which retained moisture. 
Timothy — Exceptionally heavy crop, averaging over two tons per acre; 
most of it was put in the mow without getting wet. 
Clove)' — Clover was cut twice and both crops were good. 
Potatoes — Fine yield where free from potato bugs. Some extra early 
potatoes sold at $2.00 per bushel but the average price was 60 cents to 
70 cents. 
Vegetables — Fair crop. 
Apples — Fair crop of summer apples, such as Wealthy, Snow and 
Duchess. 
Other Fruits — Peaches and grapes in abundance. Fair berry crop; few 
pears and no plums. 
Cattle — About the same number as usual. 
Horses — Great demand for horses of any description. 
SuHne — Not so many raised. Farmers pushed the sale of their hogs 
at a very light weight on account of the high price of corn and fear of 
cholera. 
Sheep — Not many in Scott county but they do well here. 
Poultry — Growing industry. Good poultry exhibition was held at Dav- 
enport in November. Price of eggs high. 
Bees — Lots of honey. 
Drainage — Great deal of tiling; also making gravel roads. 
Other Industries — Sweet corn canning factory; cucumber pickling 
works, and also glucose works. 
Lands — Steady price. 
Report of Fair — Farmers' Institute largely attended. 
SHELBY. 
Fred Frazier, Harlan, September 1-4, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — An average crop; the early 
spring was favorable for seeding and planting but later on it became wet 
and cold and some damage was done to corn and oats. 
Corn — Little more than an average acreage and it is estimated that 
it will be- an average yield of good quality. 
Oats — About one-fourth of a crop and quality poor. 
Wheat — About the usual acreage and yield and quality good. 
Rye — Not much sown, except for hog pasture. 
Barley — About the usual acreage and the yield and quality good. 
Flax — Not much sown. 
Buckwheat — Not much sown. 
Millet — Small acreage; quality good. 
Sorghum — Not much raised. 
Timothy — Average yield; quality good. 
Clover — The hay crop was good; there was also an excellent crop of 
fall clover but little of it was cut for seed. 
Prairie Hay— Yery little cut. 
Potatoes — Small acreage; quality good. 
Vegetables — An average crop. 
