952 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGPICULTURE 
matter of public interest and educational value. The state printer 
shall print three thousand copies thereof, which shall be distributed 
from the office of the department of agriculture. The directors may 
require a larger issue for such subscribers as will pay the expense 
thereof. The director shall have advisory power to co-operate with 
the farmers' institute organizations of the several counties of the state, 
for the purpose of arranging dates and providing speakers or lecturers, 
with a view to economy of time and travel in attending institutes; 
such institutes to be held as nearly as practicable in circuits,, and 
at such dates as will ena.ble the speakers to attend two or more such 
institutes each week. [24 G. A., ch. 63, § 2; 23 G. A., ch. 29, § 4.] 
[28 G. A., ch. 58, § 19.] 
Sec. 1681. Appropriaticn. There is hereby appropriated, out of any 
money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of 
two thousand seven hundred dollars annually, to be drawn and ex- 
pended upon the order of the president and secretary of the depart- 
ment of agriculture, for such service, including the salary of the di- 
rector, which shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum. [24 
G. A., ch. 63, § 1.] [28 G. A., ch. 58, § 19.] 
CROP STATISTICS. 
AN ACT to repeal section thirteen hundred and sixty-three (1363) of 
the code, relating to statistics, and enacting a substitute therefor. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of loiva: 
Sec. 1363. Crop statistics. Each year the county auditor shall 
deliver to each assessor the necessary blanks for recording, as to each 
person whose property is listed, statistics of the previous year as to 
the number of acres, average and total yield of corn, oats, wheat, and 
such other crops and information as may be in their possession which 
may be called for relative to agriculture, agricultural production, 
agricultural labor, live stock, poultry and egg production, for publica- 
tion in the Iowa Year Book of Agriculture. The assessor shall require 
each person whose property is listed to make answers to such inquiries 
as may be necessary to enable him to return the foregoing statistics; 
and said blanks with such entries shall be returned to the county 
auditor on or before the fifteenth day of April, who shall tabulate the 
same by townships, and forward the returns thereof to the secretary 
of the state board of agriculture not later than the tenth day of May. 
The secretary of the state board of agriculture shall provide and cause 
to be delivered to the county auditor before the first week in January 
the blanks to be used by the assessors and county auditor for the 
proper return of the information required in this section. [33 G. A.] 
Approved March 25, A. D. 1909. 
STATE ENROLLMENT OF STALLIONS. 
Section 2341. Repeal. That chapter ninety-eight (98), of the acts 
of the Thirty-first General Assembly be, and the same is hereby re- 
pealed, and the following enacted in lieu thereof: 
