826 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Timothy — Hay was good crop; yield from ton and a half to two tons 
per acre. 
Clover — Good crop and considerable of second growth cut for seed 
this fall. 
Prairie Hay— Good crop and put up in good condition. 
Potatoes— Good quality and average yield. 
Vegetables— All varieties yielded an abundant crop and were of good 
quality. 
Apples— Yery small crop but quality fair. 
Other Fruits — About the average. 
Cattle — Usual number raised and doing well. 
Horses— In good condition and the usual number raised. 
Swi7ie— Great many raised but a great many lost during the last two 
months by disease and many still dying at this time. 
Sheep — Only a few raised here. 
Poultry — Large numbers raised here and doing well. 
Bees — Honey crop about the average. 
Drainage — A great deal of drainage being done with tile and open 
ditches. Several county ditches are being put in. 
Lands — Prices from $45 to $60 per acre and very little changing hands. 
Report of Fair— Held at Buffalo Center, September 1.5, 16 and 17, 1908. 
Exhibits large; attendance very good and the society will about pay ex- 
penses. 
WINNESHIEK. 
L. L. Cadavell, Decorah, September, 1908. 
General Condition of Crops and Season — Six towmhsips visited by 
severe hailstorm the 20th of June and in those townships there is but 
about forty per cent of an average crop; all crops, with the exception of 
oats and potatoes are good in the other portions of the county. 
Corn — Good, best we have had for five years; fine quality. 
Oats — About sixty per cent of an average crop; light w^eight. 
Wheat — Very little raised; quality good. 
Rye — Very little grown. 
Barley — Fair crop and fine quality. 
Flax — Good crop. 
Buckwheat — Good but not much grown. 
Millet — Small amount raised; quality good. 
Sorghum — None raised. 
Timothy — Good crop and fine quality. 
Clover — Badly winter killed. 
Prairie Hay — None. 
Other Grains and Grasses — Fair, 
Pofa^oes— Poor; small, few in hills. 
Vegetables — Good yield and fine quality. 
Apples — Poor crop both of summer and winter varieties. 
Other Fruits — Poor. 
Cattle — Fine condition; good prices. 
Horses — Are in good demand and farmers raising a great many colts. 
