EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



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TABULATED CROP SUMMARY. 



Acres 



Corn 10,242.000 



Oats 5,23S,500 



Spring wheat 173,460 



Winter wheat 133.930 



Barley 258,775 



Rye 35,275 



Flax seed 7,430 



Timothy seed 290,243 



Clover seed 61,560 



Potatoes 99,610 



Hay (tame) 2,671,100 



Jlay (wild) 524,912 



Alfalfa 103,215 



Pasture and grazing 



Ensilage 



Sweet corn 



Pop corn 



Buckwheat 



Fruit crop 



Garden truck 



Miscellaneou.s 



Average Average 



yield 

 40 Bu. 



Bu. 



Bu. 



Bu. 



Bu. 



Bu. 



Bu. 



4.5 Bu. 



1.5 Bu, 



109 Bu. 



1.3 tons 

 1.2 tons 



3.4 tons 



46 

 18 

 18 

 3 5 

 20 

 11 



price 



$ .97 



.61 



1.94 



1.97 



1.15 



1.58 



2.87 



3.37 



14.00 



1.32 



18.82 



14.79 



23.40 



Total yield 



409,667.000 



239,416,200 



3 199,820 



2,397.560 



9,111,590 



722,410 



80,810 



1.306.093 



92.340 



10,793.600 



3,584,400 



636.947 



353 830 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Estimated 



Total value 



$397,376,990 



146,043,882 



6,207,652 



4,723,193 



10,478,328 



1,141,408 



231,925 



4,401,533 



1,292,760 



14,247,552 



67,458,408 



9,420,446 



8,279,622 



100,000,000 



16,686,000 



5,800,000 



900,000 



370,000 



7,000.000 



8,000,000 



12,000,000 



Total value $822,059,699 



The value of soil products for 1916 was $597,165,673 



The Chairman : Gentlemen, we have with us today Mr. John 

 Wallace, chairman of the Red Cross Christmas Membership Cam- 

 paign, who would like to explain the Red Cross work. 



JOHN WALLACE. 



As we are sitting here in this comfortable room today, there are 

 American soldiers in the trenches in France. They are standing shoulder 

 to shoulder with the French and British who had been fighting our battles 

 for the past three years — and now well into the fourth year. There are 

 thousands of our boys in the training camps of France — we don't know 

 how many thousand, for the government does not tell us; and there are 

 thousands of the best of American manhood in the great training canton- 

 ments all over this country. There will be thousands more selected during 

 the coming months. These men are all being selected for the one big thing 

 — the drive in the spring When spring opens up on the western front in 

 France, we will see a battle such as we have never seen before — such as 

 this war has not seen before. That means we will have a casualty list in 

 Iowa so long that you men will be standing before the bulletin boards 

 hoping and praying that the name of your boy is not there; but thousands 

 of our boys will be wounded. 



The organization that takes care of the wounded soldier is the Amer- 

 ican Red Cross. The American Red Cross is responsible for the first 

 emergency treatment that is given for the care of the wounded. They 

 have a first-aid hospital close back of the firing line where emergency 

 treatment is given. Then the wounded boy goes back to the base^ hospital 

 v^here our best and most skilled American surgeons will be in attendance 

 and where operations will be performed to save that boy's life, and the 

 number of lives that will be saved will depend upon what you do for the 

 Red Cross. The war will be brought home to the people of this country 



