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Bees — Poor. 



Drainage — Very good. 



Lands:— "Out of sight." 



Report of Fair—Held at New Sharon September 20-23. Exhibits were 

 larger than ordinary and the attendance was good. We were rained out 

 the third day and the Association declared the fair off. 



MARION. 



CHAS. FORTEB, PELL A, OCTOBER 31, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — On the whole the crops are in 

 better condition than they have been for 25 years. The season started 

 out dry, and so remained throughout the farming season. Recently we 

 have had some fine rains. 



Corn— Generally a good stand; acreage large; yield good, and quality 

 excellent. 



Oats — Large acreage sown and the yield and quality was excellent. The 

 straw as a whole is better than we have ever seen before. 



Wheat — Winter wheat produced a good yield of excellent quality. Spring 

 wheat was of good quality and yielded from 15 to 24 bushels per acre. 



Rye — Fine quality but not much raised. 



Barley — Excellent quality but neither the yield nor the acreage was 

 large. 



Flax — None grown. 



Buekicheat — Yield fair but not much sown. 



Millet — Not much sown and the season was too dry for a heavy crop. 



Sorghum — Larger acreage than usual; quality fine. There was a big 

 crop of seed harvested, netting about $15.00 per acre alone. 



Timothy — Short crop but the quality was very fine. 



Clover — First crop, where not frozen out, was successfully saved and 

 the quality was very good. The second crop was also good. Seed and 

 hay well saved. 



Prairie Hay — None. 



Other Grains and Grasses — Blue grass is our main pasture. 



Potatoes — Good results were procured where surface cultivation was 

 carried out. 



Vegetables — Both early and late ones good. 



Apples — None raised on account of hard freezes. 



Other Fruits — Grapes were the only small fruit this year. Peach trees 

 were badly killed. 



Cattle — More dairy cattle are being raised. All beef breeds are being 

 improved in quality. 



Horses — Draft breeds raised principally. Each year we can see a 

 marked improvement in the number and quality of horses. 



Swine — More pure breds of all the different breeds can be found in the 

 county than formerly. 



Sheep — Shropshires predominate. I think we will see more sheep in 

 the county before long. 



