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Table No. 4 — Gives number of horses all ages, mules all ages, 

 January 1, 1913, number of swine on farms July 1, 1912. Number 

 of dairy cows kept for milk, number other cattle not kept for milk, 

 and total number of cattle all ages January 1, 1913. Number of 

 sheep. kept on farms, number shipped in for feeding and number 

 sold for slaughter. Number pounds of wool clipped, total number 

 all varieties poultry on farms July 1, 1912, and estimated number 

 dozen eggs gathered for the year 1912. 



Table No. 5 — Acreage in sweet corn, tons gathered for canning; 

 total acreage pop corn, and yield in bushels and total acreage and 

 yield in bushels for clover and timothy seed, by counties for the 

 year 1912. 



Part IV. Proceedings of the ninth annual meeting of the Corn 

 Belt Meat Producers' Association. 



Part V. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the State Farmers ' 

 Institute. 



Part VI. Synopsis of the proceedings of the State Board of 

 Agriculture and committee meetings of 1911 and 1912. 



Part VII. Proceedings of the State Agricultural Convention, in- 

 cluding President's address and reports of the secretary and treas- 

 urer, financial statement of farmers' institutes, financial statement 

 and statistics of county and district fairs 'and a complete report 

 of the Iowa State Fair and Exposition for 1912 with detailed state- 

 ment of receipts and disbursements of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture for the fiscal year ending November 30, 1912. 



Part VIII. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Iowa Swine 

 Breeders' Association held at Ames, June 11, 1912. 



Part IX. Proceedings of the 35th annual convention of the Iowa 

 State Dairy Association held at Waterloo, October 14-19, 1912. 



Part X. Contains extracts from the State Dairy Commissioner's 

 report for 1912. 



Part XI. Extracts from the State Veterinary Surgeon's report 

 for the period ending June 30, 1912. 



Part XII. Contains papers on live stock, agricultural and mis- 

 cellaneous topics and papers read before county institutes. 



Part XIII. Press reports of the Iowa State Fair and Exposition 

 for 1912; official report of awards in the live stock departments 

 and the standing and scores made in the boys' judging contest. 



