Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — STATE RANKS AND PRODUCTS. [ARTICLE]

STATE RANKS AND PRODUCTS.

Nebraska grows every year $60,000,000 worth of farm products. There are 65,000 farms, which produce 270,- ; 0,000 bushels of corn and wheat. NEW Hampshire cotton mills have a jpital of over $50,000,000 and pay sls, joo,ooo annually in wages. Over 300,00 yards of cotton cloth are produced daily. WISCONSIN is second in hops, third in potatoes, fourth in rye and buckwheat, fifth in oats, seventh in iron and sheep, eighth in tay, ninth in copper.

lowa produces $.305,000,000 of farm products every year. The corn cop reaches 322,0J0,000 bushels; wheat, 37,000,i W; oats, 80,000,000; potatoes, 20,000,000. Montana has produced nearly onethird of the gold, silver, copper aud lead in the United States. The minus of this State have yielded over $400,000,000. Louisiana has but a tenth of the arable land under cultivation, but produces 120,(100,000 pounds of rice; 330,000 hogsheads of sugar and 500,00 u barrels of molasses. Minnesota grows every year 45,. 000,000 b: shels of wheat. 48,000,000 ot oate, 22,00U,000 of corn, and produces 472,000,000 feet of lumber, and 180,000,000 shlngk T. Pennsylvania Is first in rye, iron, steel, petroleum and coal, second in buckwheat and potatoes, fourth in oats, fifth in silk and wool, sixth in salt and oop|>er. New York Is first in manufactures, printing, hops, hay, potatoes, buckwheat and cows, second in salt, liquors and railways, third in iron and steel, fourth in sheep. North Carolina catches every year 100,000 barrels of fish, and produces •2,000,000 of gold and two-thirds of the turpentine and rosin, pitch and tar produced in this country. North Dakota has farms of 10,000 to lfi,(i()0 acres each. Over 210,000 tons of buffalo bones, representing 7,800,000 animals, have been exported from this State.