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ty-third General Assembly and contains the following data : 

 Table No. 1. Total number, average size, and total acreage of 

 all farms within the state, number of rods of tiling, number of 

 silos, number of manure spreaders in use, and the average 

 monthly wage paid farm help. Table No. 2. Total acreage, total 

 yield and average yield per acre of the following farm crops for 

 the year 1909: Corn, oats, barley, winter and spring wheat. 

 Table No. 3. Acreage, yield and average yield per acre of rye, 

 potatoes, alfalfa and hay, also number of bushels of timothy and 

 clover seed, number of acres of pop corn, acres and yield of 

 sweet corn, number of acres in garden and orchards, and the 

 acreage alloted to pasture, all for the year 1909. Table No. 4. 

 Number of horses, mules and cattle (all ages) on the farms in 

 Iowa January 1, 1910 ; the number of cattle shipped in for feed- 

 ing during the year and the number sold for slaughter during 

 the same period, the average number of hogs and sheep kept on 

 the farm, the number of sheep shipped in for feeding and the 

 number sold for slaughter, the average number of poultry kept 

 on the farm, the number marketed during the year, the approx- 

 imate number of dozens of eggs received and the approximate 

 number of dozens sold during the year. Part IV contains a 

 report of the proceedings of the joint session of the Annual 

 State Farmers' Institute and Corn Belt Meat Producers' Asso- 

 ciation on December 7, 1909. Part V contains the proceedings 

 of the State Agricultural Convention, December 8, 1909. Part 



VI gives a sjmopsis of the proceedings of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, executive and special committee meetings. Part 



VII contains a complete report of the proceedings of the an- 

 nual meeting of the Swine Breeders' Association for 1909. Part 



VIII sets forth the proceedings of the Thirty-third Annual Con- 

 vention of the Iowa State Dairj^ Association held at Cedar 

 Rapids November 16, 17 and 18, 1909. Part IX is a reprint 

 of the State Food and Dairy Commissioner's Tweny-third An- 

 nual Report, same being for the year 1909. Part X contains re- 

 prints from bulletins from various experiment stations and other 

 valuable data from the agricultural press and from papers read 

 before county farmers' institutes on agriculture and kindred 

 subjects, and a financial statement of county farmers' institutes 

 in Iowa receiving state aid. Part XI is a report of the Iowa 

 State Fair and Exposition by the leading agricultural papers of 

 this and adjoining states, with the official report of awards in 



