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MISCELLANEOUS
	1885		1880
No. acres land in the state	47,869,978
No. improved farms	99,857		63,387
No. farms operated by owners	81,049		51,953
No. farms rented for money	3,621		1,941
No. farms rented on shares	15,187		9,476
Total No. acres improved	10,975879		5,504,702
Total value of products raised	$52,035,922		$31,708,914
Total value of farms	$?85,94?,200		$105,932,541
No. horses and mules on farms	408,971		224,863
No. milch cows on farm	3?8,176		161,187
No. head swine	2,241,348		1,241,724
No. head other stock	1,397,447		597,363
Value of livestock	$33,776,720		$33,440,265
Gallons milk sold	4,565,441		625,783
Pounds butter made on farms	15,620,575		9,725,198
No. head sheep	444,013		199,453
Pounds of wool sold	2,060,483		1,282,656
Pounds of honey	191,2?0		.........
Bushels of Barley	2,611,898		1,744,686
"     Buckwheat	79,296		17,562
"     Corn	127,852,387		65,450,135
"     Oats	20,674,260		6,555,875
"     Rye	1,774,558		424,348
"     Wheat	13,896,051		13,847,007
"     Flax	387,491		77,805
Gallons sorghum	383,343		246,047
Pounds sugar	1,748		145
Pounds broom corn	7,592,934		1,751,807
Bushels potatoes	4,102,381		2,164,521
Bushels apples	659,442		82,242
No. manufactories	2,861		1,403
Capitol invested	$12,722,334		$4,881,150
No. hands employed	14,910		4,4?4
Wages paid	$3,708,766		$1,742,311
Value of material	$28,880,444		$8,208,478
Value of products	$43,387,970		$12,627,336
No. cheese and butter factories	70		21
No. flouring and grist mills	239		170
no. slaughtering and meat packing houses	86		12

NOTE: Where a number was not legible, a "?" has been inserted.

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Table of Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States on pages 66 & 67.

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page 67

OFFICIAL WEIGHT OF UNITED STATES COINS.
GOLD			SILVER
DENOMINATION	WT. GRAINS		DENOMINATION	WT. GRAINS
Double Eagles ($20)	516.		Standard Dollars	412.5
Eagle ($10)	258.		Trade Dollares	416.
Half Eagle ($5)	129.		Dollars	412.
Three Dollars	77.4		Half Dollars	192.9
Quarter Eagle ($2.50)	64.5		Quarter Dollars	9 .45
Dollars	25.8		Twenty Cents	77.16
NICKEL AND COPPER			Dimes	38.58
DENOMINATION	WT. GRAINS		Half Dimes	19.19
Five Cents	77.16		Three Cents	11.52
Three Cents	30.
Two Cents	96,
Cents	48,

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