Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — STATE RANKS AND PRODUCTS. [ARTICLE]

STATE RANKS AND PRODUCTS.

Michigan is first in copper, salt and lumber, second in iron, third; in sheep, fifth in hops, sixth in wheat. | Georgia sends out every yeasyabout 1,000,000 bales of cottcn, and cuts every yeai 200,000,000 feet of lumber. Missouri is first in mules, third in hogs and corn, Sixth in iron and horses, j seventh in oats, ninth in sheep. Maine has 20,000 square miles of' pine forests. The lumber industry sends out 400,000,000 foot a year. New Jersey is first in silk manuA factures and zinc, fourth in iron, sixth, in buckwheat, and seventh in rye.