vi INTRODUCTORY 



Part III — Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the 

 County and District Fair Managers of the state, held in Des 

 Moines, December 12. 



Part IV — ^Premium awards made at the 1916 state fair; also 

 excerpts from press reports of the fair published in farm and 

 stock journals. 



Part V — Extracts from the State Dairy and Food Commissioner's 

 annual report, containing interesting information concerning the 

 dairy industry of the state. 



Part VI — Proceedings of the Fortieth Annual Convention of 

 the Iowa State Dairy Association. 



Part VII — Excerpts from the report of the proceedings of the 

 annual meeting of the Com Belt Meat Producers' Association. 



Part VIII — Bulletins and papers of interest to growers of live- 

 stock and farm workers in general. 



Part IX — Report of the State Veterinarian covering the two- 

 year period, 1915-1916. 



Part X — Annual report of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service 

 Bureau, summarizing weather and crop conditions by months for 

 the entire year. 



Part XI — Livestock, crop and general farm statistics for the 

 year ending December 31, 1916, collected by the township asses- 

 sors and reported to the department by the county auditors. 



Part XII — Presenting statistics of livestock and farm crops in 

 Iowa; also the livestock and crop statistics of the United States 

 by states, and of the various countries of the earth. Figures fur- 

 nished by the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Part XIII — Directory of organizations and as^sociations repre- 

 senting the livestock, dairy and agricultural interests of the state. 



