980 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Timothy — Light crop; hurt by worms. 



(Mover — Medium crop; cut for seed; fair yields. 



Prairie Hay — Light yield. 



Potatoes — Fair to medium crop. Late potatoes are of good quality and 

 yielded well. 



Vegetables — Good yield. 



Apples — Killed by late frost. 



Other Fruits— -Fair crop of small fruit. 



Cattle — No disease; good quality; fair condition and the number and 

 quality increasing each year. 



Horses — Same as cattle. 



Swine — 'Same as cattle. 



Sheep — Same as cattle. 



Poultry — Same as cattle. 



Bees — In good condition but not many kept. 



Drainage — The natural drainage is first class but there has been a 

 larger amount of tile put in this year than ever before. 



Other Industries — Creameries doing a heavy business. 



Lands — Selling from $100 to $175 per acre. 



Report of Fair — Held at Rock Rapids August 30, to September 2, 1910. 



MADISON. 



A. L. FOSTER, WINTERSET, SEPTEMBER 20, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — The season has been full of 

 extremes. There has been no frost up to date. 



Com — Fairly good; not very well advanced on account of dry weather. 

 The yield will probably be about 75 per cent and the quality fair. 



Oats — Extra good quality and yield good in most places. 



Wheat — Good quality; yield varying from 15 to 30 bushels per acre. 

 There were some pieces of fall wheat which yielded from 35 to 40 bushels 

 per acre. 



Rye — Not very much grown. 



Barley — Good quality: fair yield. 



Flax — None grown. 



Buckwheat — None sown. 



Millet — Too dry to be good. 



Sorghum — But very little grown. 



Timothy — Hay very fine; yielding about 60 per cent. Not very much 

 threshed for seed. 



Clover — Quality of hay good; yield of seed about 75 per cent. The crop 

 is generally short. 



Prairie Hay — Not much prairie hay in the county any more. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Blue grass was quite short on account of 

 dry weather but the recent rains have been a great help and pastures are 

 improving. 



Potatoes — Only about a fourth of a crop on account of dry weather and 

 bugs. The crop being almost a failure in some localities. 



Vegetables — Not very good, owing to the extreme dry weather. 



