iii the dairy industry, what is being done to develop a standard for 

 products, and other activities of the dairy department are given at 

 length in this part. 



Those who are especially interested in the production of live stock 

 for meat purposes will find Part VII to be highly instructive. It 

 embraces excerpts from the proceedings of the Corn Belt Meat Pro- 

 ducers' Association annual meeting. Almost all phases of beef pro- 

 duction are discussed. Shipping questions, co-operative effort, ani- 

 mal diseases — these and scores of other subjects are gone into at 

 length. 



A review of the weather and crop conditions throughout the state 

 during the year 1922 is given in Part VIII. This is the official re- 

 port of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service Bureau and is illus- 

 trated by charts and tables which are very interesting. 



The actual facts and figures regarding the farm production and 

 farm conditions in Iowa during the year are given in Part IX. This 

 is likewise compiled by the Iowa Weather and Crop Service Bureau 

 and gives many of the figures on the basis of county production, 

 furnishing comparisons as to preceding years and as to prices re- 

 ceived. 



The final section, Part X, is devoted to statistics showing the pro- 

 duction of principal farm crops throughout the world for the year. 



