PART VIII 



Annual Report of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service 

 Bureau of 1922 



CHAS. D. REED, Director 



The Iowa Weather and Crop Service was established by an Act 

 passed by the Twenty-third General Assembly, and approved by the 

 Governor April 25, 1890. 



The object of the Service is to co-operate with the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau in collecting crop statistics and meteorological data, and more 

 widely disseminate the weather forecasts and storm and frost 

 warnings for the producers and shippers of perishable products, and 

 to promote general knowledge of meteorological science and the 

 climatology of the State. 



For convenient reference and comparison with past and future 

 years, this report contains the summaries of the weekly, monthly 

 and annual bulletins of the Iowa Weather and Crop Service in co- 

 operation with the U. S. Weather Bureau and the United States 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics for the year 1922. 



The regular meteorological, climatological and crop statistical 

 work was maintained efficiently, though under great handicap from 

 frequent resignation of employees, due to low salaries paid by the 

 Government. The Thirty-ninth General Assembly placed the 

 supervision of agricultural statistics collected by assessors, under 

 the direction of this office, but failed to provide adequate funds to 

 fully carry out the law for which a minimum of $10,000 was asked 

 to cover all salaries, special clerk hire, traveling expenses, and office 

 equipment, including all of the work heretofore done by county 

 auditors on agricultural statistics. As only $7,500 were appro- 

 priated, it was necessary to ask for volunteers among the auditors to 

 do the work without compensation. About half of them responded, 

 otherwise the work could not have been done. Being voluntary 

 work, it was done at the convenience of the auditors which caused a 

 delay of 30 days in publishing the statistics. However, the bulletin 

 containing the statistics was mailed about August 1, which is 60 



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