824 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Drainage — Increasing. 
LawfZ*— Selling from $60 to $150 per acre. 
Report of Fair— Extra, good attendance and all departments were well 
filled. 
WINNEBAGO. 
J. A. Peters, Forest City, October 21, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops about an average; 
season about normal temperature and precipitation. 
Corn — Much of the corn was drowned out on the low lands, thus cutting 
the acreage quite a considerable. The latter part of the season was ex- 
ceptionally fine for this crop and ninety per cent of it was safe from 
frost before it occurred. This crop will probably yield about fifty bushels 
per acre. 
Oats — A very light oat crop; not more than twenty-five bushels per 
acre. About the usual amount was sown. 
Wheat — Very little wheat raised in this county but what was raised 
was of very good quality and the average was about twenty bushels per 
acre. No winter wheat. 
Rye — Very little raised; quality fair. 
Barley — Averaged about thirty bushels per acre and was of exceptionally 
fine quality. 
Flax — None raised. 
Buckwheat — Very little raised but quality very good. 
Millet — Quality and yield very good gut not much grown. 
Sorghum — Only a small amount grown. 
Timothy — The seed crop was excellent both as to yield and quality. 
Glover — None grown for seed; the hay crop was very large and put 
up in exceptionally fine condition. 
Prairie Hay — ^Averaged about one and a half tons per acre and mostly 
put into the mow and stack without a drop of rain on it. 
Other Grains and Grasses — This is one of the great bluegrass spots 
of Iowa, it making a rank growth and alfords feed usually about ten 
days earlier in the spring and about thirty days later in the fall than 
usual, and it is not an uncommon thing to see good pastures on the first 
of November. 
Potatoes — Rural New Yorkers and Early Ohios are the principal pota- 
toes raised; the yield was very good, probably two hundred bushels per 
acre but the acreage was not as large as usual. 
Vegetables — Very good growth and a fine exhibit was made at our fair. 
Apples — Poor crop; not enough to supply the local market, except in 
the earlier varieties. There are many orchards in this locality and 
many more are being started. 
Other Fruits— Were only a fair crop. 
Cattle — Have done well as the pastures have been very good except 
during the month of September, which was a little dry; no disease among 
the cattle. 
