. Statistics and information concerning the state of Missouri and its cheap farming lands, the grazing and dairy region, the mineral and timber resources, the unsurpassed fruit lands, and limitless opportunities for labor and capital. e and the opportunities offered to the home seeker and thefuture outlook of this industrv in Missouri. AGRICULTURE. ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE. ISSOURI is essenti;ally an agricultural State. The present status ofthis industry, however brilliant of itself, is but a promise of thefuture. While ranking among the foremost States in the production ofthe staj)le cereals as
. Statistics and information concerning the state of Missouri and its cheap farming lands, the grazing and dairy region, the mineral and timber resources, the unsurpassed fruit lands, and limitless opportunities for labor and capital. e and the opportunities offered to the home seeker and thefuture outlook of this industrv in Missouri. AGRICULTURE. ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE. ISSOURI is essenti;ally an agricultural State. The present status ofthis industry, however brilliant of itself, is but a promise of thefuture. While ranking among the foremost States in the production ofthe staj)le cereals as to amount and value, it is comparatively a newagricultural State, with a large amount of land that has never beenbrought under cultivation, and a still greater quantity which is only madeto yield an iota of what it is capable, owing to its cheapness, the large 22 MISSOURI. tracts in which it is held, and the lack of improved methods andsystematic culture, such as are characteristic of the older and more thicklypopulated East. In 1889 the population of Missouri was 2,568,380 of all ages. Of thisnumber 792,959 wore engaged in the various occupations, whereby mencan make au honest living and support those dependent upon them. Of. GRAND CANYON, SULPHUR SPRINGS. ON THE MBRAMEG MISSOURI PACIFIC RY. this latter number, 375,297 were engaged in agricultural pursuits, andmaking their living from the soil of the State of Missouri. Nearly halfwere thus engaged as against those of all other occupations. Thus it isseen that agriculture outstrips any other industry and indeed prepon-derates over them all combined in regard to the number of inhabitantsengaged in 375,297 people produced in 1889, of the leading cereals as MISSOURI. 23 follows: corn, 213,500,000 bushels, or more than the total product ofthe whole United States in 1860, making her third in the yield of corn. Wheat, 23,350,000 bushels, and eighth in the yield of this staple. Oats, 38,666,000 bushels, standing sixth in t
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