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 470 UNITED STATES : — LOUISIANA

In Kentucky hemp is grown (15,000,000 pounds annually) some cotton, and also sorghum.

Stock raising is important in Kentucky, which has long been famous for its horses. The live stock in 1910 consisted of 407,000 horses, 207,000 nmles, 394,000 milk cows, 665,000 other cattle, 1,060,000 sheep, and 989,000 swine. In 1910 the wool clip yielded 3,800,000 pounds of scoured wool, valued at 1,0 13, 080 dollars.

The State has extensive forests of oak, maple, ash, beech, Avalnut, pine, &c., and its lumber industries are important.

Kentucky has bituminous and cannel coal mines, in the working of which about 20,000 men are employed. The output for the year 1911 was 13,706,839 short tons, valued at 13,617,217 dollars. There is also a considerable output of petroleum, the yield in 1911 amounting to 472,458 barrels, valued at 328,614 dollars. Fluorspar was obtained in 1911 to the amount of 12,403 short tons, valued at 96,574 dollars. The quarries also yielded sandstone and limestone, and the clay working establishments turned out bricks, tiles, pottery, &c., to the value of 2,368,094 dollars. Other mineral products are iron, lead, barytes, lime, natural cement, asphalt, natural gas, and mineral waters. lucluding iron ore but not pig iron, the value of the mineral output in 1911 was 18,910,731 dollars.

In 1910 the census of manufactures showed there were 4,776 manufacvur- ing establishments with an aggregate capital of 172,779,000 dollars; 65,400 wage-earners who earned 27,888,000 dollars, and turned out manufactures worth 223,754,000 dollars. The output of the flour and grist industries was valued at 22,365,000 dollars; lumber and timber products, 21,381,000 dollars; tobacco, 18,598,000 dollars: spirits and ales, 44,360,000 dollars; men's clothing, 3,276,000 dollars.

The Ohio and Mississippi rivers provide natural facilities for transport. In 1910 the State had 3,526 miles of railway besides 380 miles of electric railway track. The principal railway lines are the Louisville and Nashville, the Chesapeake and Ohio the Illinois Central, and the Southern.

Books of Reference.

The Repoi'ts of the various Executive Departments of the State.

Shaler (U.S).), Kentucky. In 'American Commonwealths ' Series. Boston, Mass.

Speed (T.), The Union Cause in Kentuck}'. New York and London, 1^)07.

LOUISIANA

Governnieilt.— The Legislature consists of a Senate of 41 members and a House of Representatives of 115 members, Senators and Kepresentatives being chosen for four years. Sessions are biennial.

Qualified electors are (with the usual exceptions) all registered male citizens resident in the State for two years and in tlie parish one year next before the election. For registration, however, the citizen must show his ability to read and write, or nuist own property worth 300 dollars, or must jn-ove that his father or grandfather was entitled to a vote on January 1, 1867, but in this case the applicant must have resided in the State for five years next before the election. The "father or grandfather" clause is intended to secure white supremacy.