PART III. 



Crop and Other Farm Statistics for the Year End- 

 ing December 31, 1909. 



The Thirty-third General Assembly for the State of Iowa is to 

 be congratulated upon the repeal and re-enactment of that sec- 

 tion of the Code relative to the gathering of farm statistics. The 

 State of Iowa has been far behind her sister states in placing upon 

 her statutes a suitable laAv providing for the gathering and dis- 

 seminating yearly of crop and other farm statistics. 



While the law enacted by the Thirty-third General Assembly is 

 hardly broad enough in its provisions it is far in advance of the 

 old statutes, and is, to say the least, a step in the right direction. 

 In the past Iowa has been forced to make up her yearly statement 

 of her farm resources from voluntary reports, which at best could 

 not be considered authentic. Neither has there in the past been 

 any method whereby reliable live stock data could be secured ex- 

 cept as taken by the United States or State Census — every five years 

 — or from the estimates made each year by the United States 

 Statistical Department. 



The neAV law enacted by the last General Assembly follows: 



CHAPTER 86, ACTS 33rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 



Sectiox 1. Repeal — Crop Statistics. That section thirteen hundred 

 sixty-three (1363) of the code is hereby repealed and the following enacted 

 in lieu thereof. 



"Each year the county auditor shall deliver to each assessor the neces- 

 sary blanks for recording, as to each person whose property is listed, 

 statistics of the previous year as to the number of acres, average and 

 total yield of corn, oats, wheat, and such other crops and information 

 as may be in their possession which may be called for relative to agricul- 

 ture, agricultural production, agricultural labor, live stock, poultry and 

 egg production, for publication in the Iowa Year Book of Agriculture. 

 The assessor shall require each person whose property is listed to make 



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