PROCEEDINGS STATE AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION 



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The Thirty-ninth General Assembly increased the appropriation 

 for the support of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service Bureau from 

 $3700 tO' $7500 annually and provided that the farm and crop sta- 

 tistics collected by the township assessors shall be compiled by that 

 Bureau for publication in the Year Book of Agriculture. This 

 change in the law places supervision and compilation of these sta- 

 tistics in the hands of experienced statisticians, and with the addi- 

 tional appropriation makes it possible tO' handle the statistical de- 

 partment in a satisfactory manner. 



The Department has published bi-monthly the publication known 

 as "Greater Iowa." This publication has a circulation of approxi- 

 mately 18,000, and its purpose has been to^ further the interest of 

 agriculture and live stock in the state of Iowa and give publicity to 

 the Iowa State Fair. 



The supplement to the Year Book containing a report of the stal- 

 lion registration division ; also a directory of all stallion owners, will 

 be published early in the year 1922. During the period from January 

 1 to November 1, 1921, the Department has enrolled and issued cer- 

 tificates as set forth in the following tabulation : 



