818 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Horses — In good condition. 
Swine — Average number of pigs and very little disease. 
Sheep — Good condition. 
Poultry — Very good; no disease. 
Bees — Have not done very well; very little honey. 
Drainage — Good in this county but some lands could be improved by 
additional drainage. 
Other Industries — Dairy farming and gardening have been very profit- 
able this year. 
Lands — Good demand for lands and sells readily at from $85 to $125 
per acre, according to improvements on some. 
Report of Fair — Held at Orange City, September 16, 17 and 18. The 
weather was very good; attendance large and the exhibit of horses and 
cattle was better than they have been for a number of years. Sheep and 
swine were about the same as last year while the poultry exhibit was 
poor. The agricultural products and the art display were very pleasing, 
and the racing and other attractions were excellent this year. As usual 
the premiums were all paid in full. 
STORY. 
J. R. Laesox, Nevada, October 3, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops are very good; the 
spring was somewhat backward but the corn was nearly all planted by 
June Ist," after which date seasonable rains fell and a dry, warm September 
allowed all of the corn to mature. 
Corn — Some corn drowned out in the early part of the season, but after 
tuat the season was very favorable and corn matured before frost. 
Oats — Not so good as last year; yield about twenty to forty bushels 
per acre; average about thirty bushels. The early oats were good but 
the late ones only fair. 
Wheat — Very little raised here but such as was raised was better 
in quality and yield than usual. 
Rye — Not much sown. 
Barley — Practically none sown. 
Flax — rractically none sown. 
Buckwheat — Very little sown but quality good. 
Millet — Sovvii to considerable extent where the corn was drowned 
out and was a good crop but not so heavy as some years. 
Sorghum — Not much planted; have seen but two patches in the county. 
Timothy — The crop of hay this year was good but what was sown 
this year did not make a very good stand. 
Clover — An increasing amount of this is sown every year; what was 
sown last year made splendid hay but this year's sowing did not do well. 
Prairie Hay — Hardly any left and what there is is of poor quality. 
Other Grains and Grasses — There are some few farmers raising alfalfa 
with varying success; not enough raised to be able to report whether it is 
profitable or not. 
Potatoes — Practically no potatoes raised; not enough for home consump- 
tion. 
