938 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Vegetables — Good; 75 per cent of a good yield. 



Apples — Nearly a failure. 



Other Fruits — Short crops, owing to dry season. Fifty per cent of a 

 crop of strawberries but other kinds might class as a failure. 



Cattle — About the usual number but rather thin in flesh, owing to 

 the dry season which affected the pastures more visibly than any other 

 part of the farms. 



Horses — High priced and scarce. About the usual number of colts 

 are being raised as the high prices stimulate the interest in breeding 

 horses. 



Swine — Good quality but the farmers are not raising so many as 

 they would if feed were cheaper. There is very little sickness this 

 season. 



Sheep — There are more of them in this locality than formerly. Many 

 of the farmers have added small flocks to their farms and seem to feel 

 they are good property. 



Poultry — Fully up to the average; the high price of eggs stimulates 

 the raising of poultry. 



Bees — On account of the poor season there is no surplus of honey in 

 this locality. 



Drainage — More tiling done than ever and it is beginning to show 

 good results. 



Other Industries — Good. 



Lands — Lands have been changing hands in this locality quite freely; 

 selling from $80.00 to $125.00 per acre. 



Report of Fair — Held August 23-26, inclusive. There was a large 

 increased attendance over last year; exhibits were larger and better 

 and the fair, on the whole, was a success. 



BUENA VISTA. 



C. H. WEGERSLEV, ALTA, SEPTEMBER, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — The general condition of 

 crops in Buena Vista county for the year 1910 was most encouraging to 

 the farmer. A backward, cold, spring was succeeded by a dry, hot sum- 

 mer. Timely showers matured all field crops and the yield of small 

 grain was superior to that of the average year. The corn crop is still 

 an unknown fact at this time, but every indication points to a good 

 yield of excellent quality. If rain had come a week earlier in the criti- 

 cal time of the corn crop the yield would have been much better. In 

 the northeast part of this county there is much low and flat land and 

 this has been an ideal year for prosecuting farm work in that section. 



Wheat — Little wheat is raised in the county, but the yield and quality 

 was good. 



Rye — Small acreage but good yield. 



Barley — A fair acreage and good yield. 



Flax — No flax raised in the county. 



Buckwheat — None raised as far as I know. 



Millet — A fair yield and small acreage. 



