PART XIII. 



Crop and Other Statistics for the Year Ending 



December 31 1913, Collected by 



Township Assessors. 



Statistics on lowas crops and live stock as collected by the 

 township assessors under provisions of Chapter 86, Acts of the 

 Thirty-third General Assembly, are herewith presented. Every 

 effort is made to get these statistics as accurate as possible but 

 naturally there is some variation in these figures as compared to 

 those shown by the Iowa Weather and Crop Service, whose reports 

 are secured b}^ estimates made by the crop reporters over the state. 

 These statistics are gathered by the tOMTiship assessors and turned 

 in to the county auditor to tabulate them by counties and forward 

 them to the office of the State Department of Agriculture. 



Figures have been collected this year showing the hog cholera 

 losses by counties during the year 1913. Considerable interest has 

 been manifested in these figures inasmuch as the ravages of hog 

 cholera this past year have been luiusually heavy. 



Table Xo. 1. Gives the total number, average size and total 

 acreage of farms, total acreage occupied by farm buildings, public 

 liighways and feed lots, acreage in pasture, garden, orchard, crops 

 not otherwise enumerated and land not utilized for any purpose. 

 It also shows the total number of bushels of apples harvested and 

 average monthly wage paid farm labor summer and Avinter months 

 by counties for the jenr 1913. 



Table Xo. 2. This gives the acreage, yield i)er acre and total 

 yield of corn, oats, wdnter wheat, spring wheat and barley by 

 counties for the year 1913. 



Table Xo. 3. This shows the acreage, yield per acre and total 

 yield of rye, tame hay, wild hay. alfalfa, potatoes and flax seed by 

 counties for the year 1913. 



Table Xo. 4. The live stock figures are given in this table show- 

 ing the inimber of horse of all ages, mules all ages on the farms 

 January 1. 1914. and number of swine on farms Julv 1, 1913: the 



