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Precipitation chart for 1902 166 



Review of crop season, 1902 167 



Report of crops, June 1, 1902 170 



Reports of crops, July 1, 1902 175 



Reports of crops, August 1, 1902 175 



Report of crops, December, 1902 ; final 175 



Report of crops, 1902 ; final 178 



Sage, J. R. , Report of the Iowa weather and crop service 160 



Table of Iowa crops for 1902 172 



Tabulated crop summary 177 



PART IV. IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND 

 MECHANIC ARTS. 



Corn judging 18 1 



Diagram of t eef carcass showin g cuts and value of each 187 



Olin, W. H. , "Ten days' course in agriculture for the busy farmer" 181 



Stock judging school J85 



Ten days' course in agriculture for the busy farmer, W. H. Olin 181 



Tables giving value of beef on block 188 



PART V. IOWA IMPROVED STOCK BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Address of president, W. M . McFadden 191 



Atkinson, James, ' 'Legumes in Iowa" 218 



Black things on the farm, J. S. Trigg 201 



Breeding animal defined 210 



Bleakley, A. J. , "Is it profitable to keep sheep on our Iowa farms" 210 



Browning, O . W. , ' 'The outlook for the breeding of pure bred swine" 214 



By-products, J. J. Ferguson 216 



Committees appointed 193 



Committee reports 209 



Definition of a breeding animal 210 



Farmers institutes, F. F. Failor 194 



F. F. Failor, ' 'Farmers' institutes" .... 194 



Ferguson, J. J. , "By-products" . .' 216 



Farmer and the State fair, The, H. C. Wallace.... . 222 



Harrah, Albert, "The outlook for the breeder of pure bred cattle" 202 



Is it profitable to keep sheep on our Iowa farms, A. J. Bleakley 210 



Johnson, J. W., "One of the e-sentials" 196 



Kinzer, R. J. , ' 'The Odebolt experiment" 204 



Legumes in Iowa, James Atkinson 218 



McFadden, W . M. , "Address of president" 191 



One of the essentials, J. W. Johnson 196 



Outlook for the breeder of pure bred cattle, Albert Harrah 202 



Odebolt experiment, The, R. J. Kinzer 204 



Officers 209 



Outlook for the breeder of pure bred swine, The, O. W. Browning 214 



President's address, W. M . Mci< adden 191 



Reports of committees 209 



Resolutions 20ft 



Trigg, J. S. , "Black things on the farm" 201 



Wallace. H. C, "The farmer and the State fail" 222 



PART VI. FARM CROPS AND LIVE STOCK. 



A — THE SILO. 



Clover silage experience, Aison Secor 232 



Cowles, H. B. , ' 'Silos and silage" 239 



Illinois experiment station on silage, The 237 



Pierce. F. D. , "Silo experience" 228 



