750 IOWA DEPAnrMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



C.»TTi.E — Good; prices high. 

 Horses — Top notch prices. 

 Swine — Good crop and good prices. 

 Sheep — Average number. 



Poultry — Good year for poultry; prices never better. 

 Bees — Very few kept. 



Drain vce — More put in than for two years previous. 

 Lands — Prices range from sixtj^-five to one hundred and twenty dollars 

 per acre depending upon location and improvements. 



Report cf Fair — Held at Independence, September 17 to 20. 



BUENA VISTA. 

 Wm. Zeilman, Alta, October 23, 1907. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Crops below the average for 

 the past ten years. Temperature for the season considerable below the 

 average for the spring months; remainder of the season about normal. 



Corn — Acreage up to the average, but on account of cold backward 

 season and early frosts the yield is estimated at about seventy-five per 

 cent. 



Oats — About eighty per cent of average crop; quality poor; acreage 

 a'cout the average. 



Wheat — Not much raised; fair quality and average yield. 



Rye — Very little raised. 



Barley — Eighty per cent of crop; quality poor on account of rust. 



Flax — Not much raised but of good quality and average yield. 



Buckwheat — Very little raised. 



Millet — Very little sown; average yield. 



SoRCHUM — None raised. 



TiiMOTiiY — Good quality but light yield. Seed good, above the average. 



Clover — New seeding good; second year poor; no seed. 



Prairie Hay — Average yield and good quality. 



Potatoes — Yield above the average; quality good. 



Apples — Large crop but of poor quality. 



Other Fruits — Very scarce. 



Cattle — Average number of cattle raised, but in poor flesh, on account 

 of late pastures; prices low. 



Horses — Number increasing and prices good. 



Swine — Average number raised and in good condition, except in south- 

 eastern part of the county where cholera is prevalent. 



Sheep — Gradually increasing in numbers and in a fair condition. 



Poultry — Not up to the average on account of cold spring. 



Bees — Some bees lost during the winter and not a full crop of honey. 



Drainage — A great deal of tiling being done and a number of drainage 

 districts formed in the county. 



Lands — Increasing in value from ten to twenty dollars per acre; 

 considerable improvements being made. 



Report of Fair — Held at Alta August 20 to 23. 



