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in each year and more open ditches. 



Other Industries — Improving. 



Lands — Constantly increasing in price. 



Report of Fair — Held September 6-9, inclusive. Attendance largest 

 in history of the fair. Stock exhibits especially good. 



BLACK HAWK. 



F. E. HOYT, LAPORTE CITY, OCTOBER 24, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Good. 



Corn — Good quality; yield about forty-five bushels per acre. 



Oats — Good quality; yield about forty-five bushels per acre. 



Wheat — Good; yield about twenty-five bushels per acre; acreage lim- 

 ited. 



Rye — Acreage limited; fair yield, about twenty bushels per acre. 



Barley — Quality good; yield about forty bushels per acre. 



Flax — None raised. 



Timothy — Light crop. 



Clover — Good. 



Potatoes — Fair crop. 



Y eg eta o les — Goo d. 



Apples — None. 



Other Fruits — Strawberries good; other fruits very scarce. 



Cuttle- — Good; county fairly well supplied. 



Horses — Good; very great number of colts raised this year. 



Swine — Good; great many young pigs and very little disease pre- 

 vailing. 



Sheep — Very limited nunrber of sheep in this vicinity. 



Poultry — Plenty. 



Bees — Limited. 



Drainage — Much drain tile put in this season. 



Other Industries — None except canning factory. 



Lands — Farm lands increasing rapidly in price. 



Report of Fair — Held September 27-30, inclusive. Attendance poor; 

 weather good; display one of the best we have ever had. 



BREMER. 



E. C. BENNETT, WAVERLY, OCTOBER 24, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — The spring was cold and 

 backward. There were no June rains, and except in limited spots a 

 drouth commencing in May lasted until August 17. Grass suffered 

 severely but crops of grain were good. 



Corn — About forty bushels per acre for field corn. About 75 per cent 

 of the sweet corn was grown in the eastern half of the county and 25 

 per cent in the western. 



Oats — An average crop; yielding from twenty to sixty-five bushels 

 per acre. 



