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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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Fig 9. — Showing- the distribution of alfalfa in Iowa from statistics 

 secured according to law by township assessors, and compiled from data 

 contained in the Iowa Crop Report, 1910. Unit represented by each dot, 

 ten acres. 



Letters were sent to eight men in each county, in most cases to men 

 known to be interested in alfalfa growing. Each correspondent was 

 asked for the names of the men in the county known to have grown 

 alfalfa at some time and to indicate whether these men had succeeded 

 with the crop, whether their efforts had been partially successful or 

 whether they had failed. These letters were generally answered and 

 very acceptable data were secured. 



