Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . the list of Stateswith a total of $2,004,316,897. The improvedacreage of the State, in 1902, was dividedamong the various leading crops as follows:Wheat, 1,774,329 bushels; oats, 3,747,956 bush-els; corn, 8,201,312 bushels; hay, 2,667,252 tons;rye, 113,836 bushels; barley, 28,874 bushels,with 4,581,045 acres in pasture. In 1900. ofthe 90,947,370 pounds of broom-corn producedin the United States, Illinois was credited with60,665,520. Her hay and forage crops amount-ed to 3,948,563 tons, and 256,213 acres were de-voted to the growing of vegetables, value
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . the list of Stateswith a total of $2,004,316,897. The improvedacreage of the State, in 1902, was dividedamong the various leading crops as follows:Wheat, 1,774,329 bushels; oats, 3,747,956 bush-els; corn, 8,201,312 bushels; hay, 2,667,252 tons;rye, 113,836 bushels; barley, 28,874 bushels,with 4,581,045 acres in pasture. In 1900. ofthe 90,947,370 pounds of broom-corn producedin the United States, Illinois was credited with60,665,520. Her hay and forage crops amount-ed to 3,948,563 tons, and 256,213 acres were de-voted to the growing of vegetables, valued at$10,346,797. The production of apples amount-ed to 9,178,150 bushels. Of the natural products, the next in impor-tance to those of agriculture is coal; and onlyone State in the Union surpasses Illinois inthe value of coal actuall;, mined. All of heroutput is of the bituminous variety, the valueof which (at the mines) varies from $ perton, for lump coal, to 37 cents for pea coal. Thetotal output of the State for 1901 was 26,635,-.
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