PART III 



Crop and Other Statistics For the Year 

 Ending December 31, 1911 



Collected by Township Assessors. 



In compiling the crop and other farm statistics for the third 

 time under the provisions of Chapter 86, Acts of the Thirty-third 

 General Assembly, it is very evident that the county auditors and 

 township assessors have come to appreciate the value of statistics 

 collected in this manner. The reports from the various county 

 auditors indicate that considerable care has been exercised in 

 compiling the reports, and a greater portion of the reports were 

 on file within the time specified by law. In cases where it was 

 necessary to return reports for correction the error was usually 

 traced to the footings of the assessors' books. 



We would like to again call attention to the fact that some 

 provision should be made for diseminating these statistics prior 

 to the time of publication in the Iowa Year Book. Inasmuch as 

 they are collected in about the same manner as the statistics for 

 the state census, and are practically the only authentic figures 

 available on crop production, we believe they are of sufficient 

 value to warrant publication in pamphlet form and given a wide 

 circulation immediately after being compiled. 



These statistics are presented in five tables, as follows : 



Table No. 1. Gives the total number, average size and total 

 acreage of all farms within the state consisting of five or more 

 acres and situated either inside or outside of the corporate limits 

 of cities and towns ; total number of acres occupied by farm 

 buildings, feed lots, groves and highways (Four acres are al- 

 lowed to each qviarter section where highway runs along two 



