38 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
43 cents per bushel, $48,517,110. Last season the product was 111,190,400 
bushels, valued at $43,364,256. The average total yield for the ten pre- 
ceding years is 124,433,092 bushels. 
Barley.— Area harvested, 397,408 acres; yield per acre, 26.7 bushels; 
total product, 10,629,660 bushels; average price, 50 cents per bushel; total 
value, $5,314,830. The average total yield for the preceding ten years is 
13,629,872 bushels. 
Rye. — Area harvested, 50,893 acres; average yield, 17.1 bushels; total 
product, 869,072 bushels; average price, 63 cents per bushel; total value 
$547,515. 
Flax. — Area harvested, 40,833 acres; yield per acre, 11.3 bushels; total 
yield, 461,580 bushels; average price, $1.01 per bushel; total value, 
$466,195. 
Potatoes. — Area harvested, 118,517 acres; average yield, 89.9 bushels; 
total product, 10,658,290 bushels; average price, 59 cents; total value, 
$6,288,391. The total yield is about the same as the average yield for 
the preceding ten years. 
Hay (tame). — Average yield per acre, 1.8 tons; total product, 5,838,640 
tons; average farm price, $6,16 per ton; value of crop, ^;55,966,022. 
Hay (wild).— Yield per acre, 1.6 tons; total product, 1,445,980 tons; 
average price, $5.09 per ton; total value, $7,360,038. 
The hay crop as a whole (tame and wild) is over 2,000,000 tons in 
excess of the ten-year average. 
