EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XI. 7-19 



Potatoes — Small yield and quality poor. 



Vegetables — Good. 



Apples — Light crop. 



Otheb Fruits — Light crop, damaged by late frosts. 



Cattle — Condition good; not many being fed. 



Horses — Draft horses scarce and demand high prices; a noticeable 

 improvement in the grade raised. 



Swine — Very few old ones on hand. Spring crop of pigs on a average 

 with other years. No disease reported. 



PouLTRY^ — More attention given to this industry than formerly. A 

 large number raised and in healthy condition. 



Bees — Very few bees; condition good. 



Drainage — More drains being constructed each year. Fifty county 

 drains in operation and a number more petitioned for. Good crops are 

 being cultivated now on land which a few years ago was covered with 

 ponds. 



Other Industries — New coal fields being opened and have ready mar- 

 ket for their product; also brick and tile plants are working to their 

 full capacity. 



Lands— Not much land changing hands, but prices range from ninety 

 to one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre. 



Report of Fair — Held at Boone September 18 to 20. Good weather 

 throughout the fair. Exhibits in most departments good, though light 

 in live stock department. The first agricultural fair held in Boone for 

 fifteen years and a growing interest promises well for its future success. 



BUCHANAN. 



Chas. L. King, iNDEa-ENDENCE, September 25, 190'i 



(jtNERAL Condition of Crops and Season — Fair crops; season back- 

 ward on account of excessive rains. 

 Corn — Seventy-five per cent of crop. 

 Oats — Fifty-five per cent of crop. 

 Wheat — None. 



Rye — Eighty-five per cent of crop. 

 Barley — Eighty per cent of crop. 

 Flax — Eighty per cent of crop. 



Buckwheat — Amount harvested too small to estimate. 

 Millet — Very little grown. 

 Sorghum — Very little raised. 

 Timothy — Good. 

 Clover — Good. 

 Prairie Hay — Never better. 

 Other Grains and Grasses — Extra good. 

 Potatoes — Sixty per cent of crop. 

 Vegetables — All good except potatoes. 

 Apples — Scarce. 

 Otheb Fbuit* — Medium crop. 



