140 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



IOWA STATE FAIR BALANCE SHEET, NOVEMBER 30, 1919. 



RESOURCES. 



Real estate $582,043.07 



Building^ 687,764.91 



Light and telephone plant 19,831.13 



Personal property 34,544.99 



$1,324,184.10 



Accounts receivable 2,839.08 



Cash balance in treasury November 30, 1919 56,140.44 



Total resources $1,383,163.62 



LIABILITIES. 

 Accounts payable $ 140.24 



SURPLUS. 



State appropriation for frame buildings, 1885 $ 50,000.00 



State appropriation for real estate 84,611.47 



State appropriation for permanent buildings since 



1902 446,000.00 



Increase in value of real estate and profits of fair 



invested in permanent improvements 802,411.91 



Total surplus $1,383,023.38 



$1,383,163.62 



We will now listen to the report of the crop service bureau on 

 the final crop estimate for 1919, by Charles D. Reed, director of 

 the Iowa Weather and Crop Service Bureau. 



Charles D. Reed, director of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service 

 bureau : 



It seems like a very opportune moment for a weather man to appear 

 before you, inasmuch as we have broken all records for this time of the 

 year for low temperature, having 19 below zero at 7:00 o'clock this morn- 

 ing. It is now about 12 below. However, there are better things in 

 sight and it looks as though we will have a slight moderation. I don't 

 think it will be down below zero tonight. 



FINAL CROP REPORT OF THE STATE, 1919. 



Beginning with this, the final crop report for 1919, the Iowa Weather 

 and Crop Service as a state organization and the U. S. Bureau of Crop 

 Estimates as a federal organization working in Iowa have combined all 

 data to make one harmonized report of acreage and yield. This has 

 necessitated a revision of the county and total acreages of some of the 

 crops published by the Iowa Weather and Crop Service earlier in the 

 season. For this reason comparisons with previous years' acreages of 

 the various crops is impracticable this year. The prices here quoted 

 were compiled by the Iowa Weather and Crop Service independently. 

 This report does not include or take into consideration live stock, poul- 

 try or dairy products. 



Corn. — The estimated acreage was 10,000,000; average yield, 41.6 bush- 



