PART III 



Crop and Other Statistics for the Year Ending 



December 31, 1912, Collected by 



Township Assessors 



The statistics collected by township assessors under the provi- 

 sions of chapter 86, acts of the thirty-third general assembly, are 

 presented in this chapter. These statistics are ^thered by the 

 assessors direct from the farms and turned in to the county audi- 

 tor who tabulates them and forw^ards them to the office of the 

 secretary of the state board of agriculture. There is naturally 

 some variation in these figures as compared to those shown by the 

 Iowa Weather and Crop Service, whose reports are secured from 

 estimates made by the crop reporters over the state. 



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

 acreage of farms, total acreage occupied by farm buildings, public 

 highways and feed lots, acreage in pasture, garden, orchard, crops 

 not otherwise enumerated and land not utilized for any purpose. 

 It also shows the total number of bushels of apples harvested, num- 

 ber of silos on farms and average monthly wages paid farm help, 

 summer and winter months by counties, for the year 1912. 



Table No. 2. This gives the acreage, yield per acre and total 

 yield of corn, oats, winter wheat, spring wheat and barley b^/ 

 counties for the year 1912. 



Table No. 3. This table shows the acreage, yield per acre and 

 total yield of rye, tame hay, wild hay, alfalfa, potatoes and flax 

 seed, by counties, for the year 1912. 



Table No. 4. The figures on live stock are given in this table 

 showing the number of horses of all ages and mules all ages on 

 the farms January 1, 1913, and the number of swine July 1, 1912 ; 

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

 kept for milk and total number of cattle all ages on farms Janu- 

 ary 1, 1913 ; the number of sheep kept on the farms, the number 



