NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 817 
Apples~Yie\a very light; quality good. 
Other Fruits — Light crop. 
Cattle— Not as many steers on feed as usual; stock cattle in good con- 
dition, while some very fine herds of pure bred cattle are owned by our 
farmers. 
Horses— mgh prices for horses has stimulated the breeders to raise 
more colts then in former years but prices are fifteen to twenty-five dollars 
a head cheaper than a year ago. All breeds are represented. 
Swine— ThQ number of spring pigs below the average, not much dis- 
ease among hogs in this county. 
^^eep— Very few in county. 
Poultry— 'E.xiYB. good. 
Bees— Not many in the county. 
Drainage — Good. 
Other Industries— Gas engine factory; canning factory and brick plant 
located at the county seat and furnish employment for about eighty men. 
Lands— Advancing in price; market value fully ten dollars per acre 
more than last year. 
Report of Fair-Held at Harlan, September 1-4, inclusive. Attendance 
large; all the exhibits were good with the exception of the cattle which 
was not quite up to the average; the racing was good also the other at- 
tractions. As a whole the fair was a success. 
SIOUX. 
H. Slikkerveer. Or.vxge City, October 22, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Reason— Spring was cold and wet but 
crops are good; corn is very good; wheat fair and oats poor. 
Com— Very good, will average from forty to fifty bushels per acre. 
0a^5— Poor; early oats good but late oats very poor; will average from 
fifteen to thirty-five bushels per acre. 
Wheat— Fair, will average from fourteen to twenty bushels per acre. 
Fall wheat will average from twenty-five to thirty bushels per acre. 
Rye — None raised here. 
Barley— Fair, will average from thirty to thirty-five bushels per acre. 
Flax — None raised here. 
Buckivheat — None raised here. 
Millet — Average crop. 
Sorglium— Not much raised; average crop. 
Timothy — Crop above the average. 
Clover — Good crop. 
Prairie Hay— Above the average. 
Other Grains and Grasses— Good; above the average. 
Po^a^oes— Good crop; above the average and the quality very good. 
Vegetables — Very good. 
Apples— Good quality; seventy-five per cent of a crop. 
Other Fruits — Average crop. 
Cattle— In good condition. 
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