EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART V. 



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TO THE COMMITTEE ON ADULTERATION OF FOODS, SEEDS AND 



OTHER PRODUCTS OF THE IOWA STATE DEPARTMENT OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



I beg leave to report concerning the investigation ordered under your 

 direction. During the fall about 4,000 circulars to be filled out were sent 

 to the township trustees and county supervisors and others in the State. 



Of the circulars sent out we received 33.5 replies, receiving reports 

 from sixty-nine different counties, and thirteen reports not having blanks 

 for township and county filled out. Considering the time of the year this 

 is a fairly good return of reports. The reports were from the counties 

 as follows: 



Adams 5 



Appanoose 1 



Audubon 6 



Benton 2 



Black Hawk 1 



Buchanan 8 



Buena Vista ■ 2 



Butler 2 



Carroll 6 



Cass 3 



Cerro Gordo 3 



Cherokee 9 



Chickasaw 10 



Clarke 4 



Clayton 9 



Clinton 2 



Dallas 10 



Decorah 1 



Delaware 1 



Dickinson 4 



Dubuque 6 



Fayette 3 



Floyd 9 



Franklin 8 



Greene r .... 14 



Grundy 4 



Guthrie 2 



Hamilton 1 



Hancock 3 



Henry 4 



Howard 1 



Humboldt 4 



Ida 1 



Iowa 7 



Jackson 7 



Jefferson 7 



Johnson 4 



Jones 3 



Keokuk 1 



Kossuth I 



Lee 5 



Linn 16 



Louisa 2 



Lyon 11 



Madison 5 



Marion 4 



Marshall 6 



Mills . . 6 



Monona 9 



Muscatine 1 



O'Brien 8 



Osceola 2 



Palo Alto 1 



Plymouth 7 



Pocahontas 1 



Sac 1 



Sioux 12 



Story 2 



Tama 1 



Taylor 5 



Union 1 



Van Buren 8 



Warren 8 



Washington 1 



Webster 3 



Winnebago 9 



Winneshiek 15 



Woodbury 3 



Wright 2 



Counties from which no reports were received: Adair, Allamakee, 

 Boone, Bremer, Calhoun, Cedar, Clay, Crav/ford, Davis, Des Moines, Em- 

 met, Fremont, Hardin, Harrison, Jasper, Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Mitchell, 

 Montgomery, Page, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Scott, 

 Shelby, Wapello, Wayne, Worth. 



We received answers to the replies as follows: 



One hundred and fifty-four answered all the questions, checking the 

 most important weeds in Question 1. 



Three hundred and twenty-seven checked some of the weeds given in 

 Question 1. 



