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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



in the Year Book. I believe this contest should be made an annual 

 feature of future State fairs. 



Seventy-twoi county and district agricultural societies reported hold- 

 ing a fair this year, and received the State appropriation according to 

 law. From the reports received, this State was not the only fair to 

 suffer the effects of wet weather. Fully 75 per cent of those reporting 

 stated that the rain interfered with their fair. The reports received 

 show that the interest in county and district fairs is increasing instead 

 of decreasing, as many are prone to believe. 



INSTITUTES. 



Sixty-six counties in Iowa held institutes during the year ending 

 June 30, 1903, and fifty-eight the preceding year. The total amount 

 paid out by the State for institute work during the biennial period was 

 $6,801.85. 



Below will be found the name of counties receiving State aid for 

 institute work during the year ending June 30, 1903, and amount each 

 leceived: 



Counties. 



Amount. ' Counties. 



Amount. 



Adams $ 42.57 



Audubon 43.10 



Black Hawk 75.00 



Boone 73.24 



Bremer 75.00 



Buchanan 58.50 



Buena Vista 75.00 



Butler 75.00 



Calhoun 47.05 



Carroll 43.00 



Cedar 34.50 



Cerro Gordo 54.40 



Cherokee 75.00 



Chickasaw 69.75 



Clay 75.00 



Clayton 46.70 



Clinton 75.00 



Dallas 75.00 



Decatur 60.00 



Delaware 35.74 



Dickinson 61.33 



Emmet 51.00 



Fayette 75.00 



Floyd 73.50 



Franklin 74.75 



F'remont 73.94 



Greene 74.00 



Grundy 58.51 



Guthrie 50.50 



Hancock 15.75 



Hardin 33.85 



Harrison 75.00 



Humboldt 75.00 



Ida 71.50 



Iowa $ 75.00 



Jackson 63.14 



Jasper 31.30 



Jefferson 49.00 



Kossuth 49.65 



Linn : 75.00 



Louisa 60.52 



Lyon 75.00 



Madison 75.00 



Mahaska 75,00 



Marion 50.00 



Mills 19.30 



Mitchell 75.00 



Monona 75.00 



Muscatine 59.15 



O'Brien 75.00 



Page 75,00 



Palo Alto 75.00 



Polk 62.80 



Ringgold 30.50 



Sac 75.00 



Scott 64,56 



Shelby 75.00 



Sioux 75.00 



Story 46.35 



Tama 33.25 



Taylor 64.94 



Van Buren 51.15 



Winnebago 75.00 



Winneshiek 75.00 



Worth 52.54 



Woodbury 50.00 



Total $4,035.33 



