THE FIFTH ANNUAL 



Iowa Year Book of flgricKltUre 



ISSUED BY THE IOWA DEPARTMENT 

 OF AGRICULTURE. 



CONTAINING 



Proceedings of the State Farmers' Institute and Agricultural 

 Convention of 1904; Synopsis of the State Board and Com- 

 mittee Meetings; Crop and Weather Report; Proceedings 

 OF THE Iowa Swine Breeders, Iowa State Improved 

 Stock Breeders and Iowa State Dairy Asso- 

 ciations; Extracts from the State Dairy 

 Commissioner's Report and 

 National Dairy Union 



Papers on Live Stock, Agricultural and Miscellaneous Topics 



Early History of the Iowa State Fair, with Press Reports of the 



First Iowa State Fair (1854) and the Fair of 1904; Awards 



TO Iowa Exhibitors at the Louisiana Purchase 



Exposition; Statistics Relative to Farmers' 



Institutes in Iowa 



Reports of County and District Agricultural Societies, Togethei 

 WITH Laws Governing Same. 



LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 

 edited by botanical 



J. C. SIMPSON, GARDEN. 



SECRETARY STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTimE. 



