752 IOWA DEPARTMENT 01" AGRICULTURE. 



Buckwheat- — Very little raised. 



Millet — "Very little raised. 



Sorghum — Very little raised. 



Timothy — Fair crop. 



Clover — Pair crop. 



Prairie Hay — Fair yield. 



Potatoes — Good. 



Vegetables — Good . 



Apples — Good. 



Other Fruits — No cherries or plums; everything else very good. 



Cattle — Good. 



Horses — Good. 



Swine — Fair crop of pigs; some cholera reported. 



Sheep — Not many kept. 



Poultry — Plentiful. 



Bees — Average amount of honey. 



Drainage — Most farms drained. 



Lands — Prices range from seventy -five to one hundred and twenty -five 

 dollars per acre; not much land on the market. 



Report of Fair — Held at Manson, September 3 to 6. Pronounced by 

 all a success; attendance good; exhibits fine. On account of the back- 

 ward season the farmers did not have time to fit their stock, conse- 

 quently the exhibit in this line was not as large as usual. 



CALHOUN. 

 W. Q. Stewart, Rockwell City. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Not up to average; back- 

 ward spring and crops uneven in germinating, making corn two or three 

 weeks late; late corn injured by frost on September 25th. 



Corn — Seventy-five per cent of crop. 



Oats — Seventy-five per cent of crop; uneven in weight, ranging from 

 twenty-two to thirty pounds to the bushel. 



Wheat — None raised. 



Barley — Quality good; yield not up to the average. 



Flax — Average crop. 



Buckwheat — None raised. 



Millet — None raised. 



Sorghum — ^None raised. 



Timothy — Average crop. 



Clover — Average crop. 



Prairie Hay — None raised. j 



Potatoes — Fifty per cent of crop. 



Vegetables — Seventy-five per cent of crop. 



Apples — Average crop. 



Other Fruits — Seventy-five per cent of crop 



