628 TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 



With live stock products, milk, butter, eggs, and wool a dollar's worth 

 in November 1913 would sell for $1.46 November 1922. 



Wholesale prices of what the farmer has to buy are still 50 per cent or 

 more higher than in 1913 for the United States. A dollar's w r orth of 

 clothing in 1913 would cost $1.88 this fall, building materials $1.83, house 

 furnishings goods $1.76. C. F. S. 



WINTER WHEAT AND RYE OUTLOOK IN IOWA, 1923. 



The acreage of winter wheat sown in Iowa this fall, as reported by 

 the Division of Crop and Live Stock Estimates of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, in co-operation with the Iowa Weather and 

 Crop Service, is 773,000 acres, compared with 6S9,000 acres harvested 

 during 1922. The condition December 1 was 91 per cent of the normal. 

 Considerable loss from Hessian fly is indicated. 



The acreage sown to rye in Iowa this fall is estimated at 59,000 acres, 

 compared with 60,000 acres harvested this year. The growing condition 

 December 1 was 94 per cent of normal. 



County estimates of acreage seeded to winter wheat and rye for the 

 1923 crop and the condition in per cent of normal is shown on page 20. 



