PART III 



Crop and Other Farm Statistics for the Year Ending 

 December 31, 1910 



The following tables are the second compilation of Crop and 

 Other Farm Statistics gathered under the provisions of Chapter 

 86, Acts of the Thirty-third General Assembly. 



The reports from the County Auditors of Crop and Other Farm 

 Statistics for the year 1910 were made more promptly, and showed 

 evidence of more care in making them out, than for the year 1909 

 but revealed the fact that still more care should be exercised in 

 checking the township assessors' reports. Where errors were ap- 

 parent in these reports they were returned to the county auditor 

 and rectified in nearly every instance. The correspondence with 

 the various county auditors shows conclusively that the greater 

 portion of the mistakes in these reports are chargeable to the work 

 of the township assessor. 



In a number of counties the report of the auditor to this depart- 

 ment was delayed one, two, and three weeks by reason of one or 

 two of the township assessors, residing in a remote part of the 

 county, failing to file their report until six weeks after the time 

 specified by law. If the law is not perfectly clear, and does not 

 make it mandatory on the part of the township assessors to collect 

 and file accurate reports of Crop and Other Farm Statistics by 

 the date specified, it is the opinion of this department that the 

 law should be so amended as to leave no room for doubt or discre- 

 tion on their part as to the manner of collecting and the time for 

 filing their reports. 



We wish to reiterate the recommendation made in the Tenth 

 Annual Year Book that some provision be made for the publica- 

 tion and distribution of the statistics gathered under this act other 

 than the annual Iowa Year Book of Agriculture. As there are 

 only a limited number of year books for distribution it would seem 

 advisable to authorize the printing and distribution of at least 



