792 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Other Grains amd Grasses — Crop good. 



Potatoes — A good yield and quality good. 



Vegetables — An excellent crop. 



Apples — A fine crop, many barrels shipped to other markets. 



0THE31 Fruits — Only a fair yield of small varieties. 



Cattle — In excellent condition; nearly all the farmers of the county 

 are breeders of pure bred cattle, the Short-horn breed predominating. 



Horses — Continued activity is noted in breeding and raising horses; 

 prices continue high. 



Swine — A steady increase in number raised; no disease reported. 



Sheep — Many raised and proving very profitable. 



Poultry — A growing industry and quite profitable. 



Bees — Very few kept and did poorly the past season. 



Drainage — Natural conditions very good, although some tiling is 

 being done to a very good advantage. 



Lands — A great demand for farm lands in this county by eastern 

 farmers, with prices gradually on the increase. 



Report of Fair — Held at Osage, September 17 to 20. Attendance good 

 although the weather was somewhat unfavorable. Every department 

 was well filled with fine exhibits and the fair was a success in every 

 particular. The single judge system is used in the stock departments 

 and gives satisfaction. 



MONONA. 

 A. W. Burgess, Onawa, September 25, 1907. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Season was dry and warm in 

 March, dry and cold in April, no moisture until May 15th. 



Corn — Fairly good yield; acreage about the same as in 1906. 



Oats — Good quality; twenty to forty bushels per acre. 



Wheat — Winter wheat good, yield twenty to forty bushels; spring 

 wheat fair quality, ten to twenty bushels. 



Rye— None raised. 



Barley — Very little raised. 



Flax — None. 



Buckwheat — None. 



Millet — None threshed. 



Sorghum — None. 



Timothy — None threshed. 



Clover — None threshed. 



Prairie HAY^Yield and quality good. •; 



Potatoes — Acreage smaller than 1906; quality good. 



Vegetables — Good crops of nearly all kinds. 



Apples — Good yield and fairly good quality. 



Other Fruits — Plums and grapes plentiful. 



Cattle — About the same as 1906. 



Horses — About the same- as 1906 and quality improving. 



