THE 



Iowa Year Book of flgriciJltilrB 



^ 



ISSUED BY THE IOWA DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE 



CONTAINING 



Proceedings of the State Farmers Institute of 1903; Synopsis of 

 State Board and Committee Meetings; Weather and Crop Report; 

 Proceedings of the Iowa Swine Breeders Association; Ex- 

 tracts from the Dairy Commissioner's Report; Proceed- 

 ings of the Iowa State Dairy Association and 

 National Dairy Union 



Papers on Live Stock, Agriculture and Poultry Topics 



ALSO 



Papers Read Before Farmers Institutes; Articles and Illustrations 

 Regarding The Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic 

 Arts; Laws Relating to Farming and Stock Raising Indus- 

 tries; Early History of the Iowa State Fair 



AND 



Reports of County and District Agricultural Societies 



LIBRARY 



EDITED BY NEW VORK 



J. C. SIMPSON, ^TANfCAr. 



■'^RDBN 



PEORKTAUT STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



DES MOINES : 



PERXARD MURPHT, STATE PRINTER 



1904 



