History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . is and New York,four from the southern States east ofthe Mississippi, two each from Pennsyl-vania and New Jersey, and one from Wis-consin. The number of farms shown by the twelfthcensus was over five and one-half million,four times the number reported in 1850, andmore than a million above the number re-ported in 1890. This wonderful increase,greater for the last decade than for any otherexcept that between 1870 and 1880, denoteda vast augmentation of cultivated area in theSouth and in the middle West. Okla
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . is and New York,four from the southern States east ofthe Mississippi, two each from Pennsyl-vania and New Jersey, and one from Wis-consin. The number of farms shown by the twelfthcensus was over five and one-half million,four times the number reported in 1850, andmore than a million above the number re-ported in 1890. This wonderful increase,greater for the last decade than for any otherexcept that between 1870 and 1880, denoteda vast augmentation of cultivated area in theSouth and in the middle West. Oklahoma,Indian Territory, and Texas alone added overtwo hundred thousand to the number of theirfarms. The increase in value of farm re-sources exceeded the total value of agricultu-ral investments fifty years before. In the abundant year of 1899 our cerealcrops exceeded $1,484,000,000 in value. I goo] THE TWELFTH CENSUS 337 more than half this being in corn. The haycrop was worth over $445,000,000, that ofpotatoes $98,387,000, that of tobacco $56,-993,000. Next to corn stood cotton, the. A Census-taker at work. crop for this year reaching a value of $323,-758,000. The total value of farm andrange animals in 1900 was $2,981,722,945. The census of 1850 reported 123,000manufacturing establishments, with a capital VOL. V,—22 338 EXPANSION [1900 of $533,000,000. Ill 1900 there were 512,-000 manufacturing establishments, capitaHzedat $9,800,000,000, employing 5,321,000wage earners, and evolving $ 13,004,400,000worth of product. In ten years the number of manufacturingplants and the value of products appeared tohave increased some 30 per cent. The capi-tal invested had multiplied slightly more,about a third. The number of hands em-ployed had risen but a fifth, betokening thegreater efficiency of the individual laborer,and the substitution of machine work for thatof mens hands. Of seventy-three selected industries in 209principal cities, the most money, $464,000,000,was invested in foun
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