EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK-PART XI. 797 



Barley — Not much raised. 



Flax — None raised. 



Buckwheat — None raisod. 



Millet — None raised. 



Sorghum — None raised. 



Timothy — Light yield. 



Clover — Fair yield. 



Prairie Hay — Not much to cut in this county. 



Potatoes — Medium yield and a good quality. 



Vegetables — Fairly good. 



Apples— Poor. 



Other Fruits — Poor. 



Cattle — Good supply and high priced. 



Horses — High priced. 



Swine — Average number. 



Sheep — Not many in the county. 



Poultry — Extra good. 



Bees — Fairly good. 



Drainage — Well drained out. 



Lands — High priced, and gradually on the raise. 



Report of Fair — Held at Shenandoah, August 12-16. Large attendance. 

 Program carried out to the letter and everybody felt gratified with the 

 result. Voted extension of charter for twenty years. 



PALO ALTO. 

 F. H. Wexls, Emmetsbubg, October 22, 1907. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — The dry warm weather in 

 the early spring put the land in such shape that it could be cultivated 

 and crops put in. May and June were cold and wet, damaging corn, small 

 grain and fruit. September and October have been dry and corn ripened 

 nicely. Small grains of all kinds are of light weight and will average 

 about sixty per cent of a full crop. Corn will average little over one- 

 half a crop and the quality varies according to drainage, etc. 



Corn — Wet weather during cultivating season done great damage to 

 the corn crop. Figuring total acreage planted it will average little better 

 than fifty per cent of a full crop. 



Oats — Will average about 26 pounds per bushel and the yield was 

 from twenty to forty bushels per acre. 



Wheat — ^Very little raised, yield about fourteen bushels per acre. 



Rye — ^Very little raised. 



Barley — Barley was the best small grain crop this year, yielding from 

 thirty to forty bushels per acre. The quality good, but badly colored. 



Flax — Not much raised. 



Buckwheat — ^None raised. 



