ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XIII 999 



SCOTT. 



SEYMOUR BABR, DAVENPORT, DECEMBER 5, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Very dry until after the first 

 of August. 



Corn — Quality good and average about 50 bushels per acre. 



Oats — Quality 98 per cent; yield about 45 to 50 bushels. 



Wheat — Extra good; yield from 25 to 33 bushels per acre. 



Rye — Fair yield; good quality. 



Barley — Good quality; yield about 35 to 40 bushels per acre. 



Flax — None. 



Buckwheat — Very little sown. 



Millet — Good crop; quality first-class. 



Sorghum— None. 



Timothy — Sixty per cent of a crop; quality extra good. 



Clover — Fifty per cent of a crop; 45 per cent quality; bug in clover. 



Prairie Hay — Scarcely an average crop; quality and yield fair. 



Potatoes — Sixty per cent of a crop; quality good; size small due to lack 

 of rain. 



Yegetadles — Good crop and quality. 



Ap-ples — Failure; freeze in the spring killed them. 



Other Fruits — Grapes 20 per cent of a crop; strawberries 60 per cent 

 and raspberries 60 per cent. 



Cattle — Cattle are in good shape for winter; prices are high. 



Horses — Scarce; quality good; prices high. 



Sunne — About 75 per cent of the usual number; no disease to speak of. 



Sheep — About 80 per cent of a crop; quality and yield good. 



Poultry — Eighty per cent of the usual number; quality good; prices 

 high. 



Bees — Thirty-five per cent of the usual honey crop. Bees are in good 

 condition for winter. 



Drainage — Good; some tiling being done this season. 



Lands — Well cultivated and rotated and well manured and fertilized as 

 a rule. 



IReport of Fair — No fair held. 



SHELBY. 



FRED FRAZIER. HARLAN, OCTOBEE 29, 1910. 



General Condition of Crops and Season — Generally favorable. 



Corn — Fifteen per cent better, both in quality and in quantity when 

 compared with 1909. 



Oats — Crop yield was about an average of 35 bushels per acre and qual- 

 ity was at least 50 per cent better than 1909. 



Wheat — About 15 per cent better in yield and 25 per cent better in 

 quality than 1909. 



Rye — Very little raised in this county; not enough to speak of. 



Barley — Fifteen per cent better in yield and thirty-five per cent better 

 in quality than 1909. 



