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UNITED STATES

-NEBRASKA

teachers and 19,233 pupils. There are 2 State normal schools with 63 teachers and 2,2d8 students (1909), and 2 jmvate normal schools. Higher instruction is provided in universities and colleges, of which the more important are : —

Opened

Institutions

Professors, &c.

Students

1869 1879 1872 1882 1888 1890 1890

Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln (State)

Creighton Univ., Omaha (R.C.).

Doane Coll., Crete (Cong.) ....

Hastings Coll. (Presb.)

Nebraska Weslevan Univ. (M.E.).

York College (U.B.)

Cotrier, Lincoln (Disciples) ....

217 142 26 16 45 17 22

3,266 855 267 185 866 425 450

The State has also an agricultural college.

Charity- — The state has 2 homes for soldiers and sailors, 3 asylums for the insane and one for the feeble-minded ; 2 industrial homes for incorrigible boys and girls, and institutions for the deaf, blind, and homeless. There are many other benevolent institutions, comprising hospitals, orphanages and homes provided by private corporations or religious bodies. Justices of the peace in counties without a poor-house are overseers of the |>oor in their districts and, as such, report to the county commissioners. They may confide (under bond) the care of paupers to discrete householders. Thirty days' residence in a county entitles a pauper to relief. A pauper with residence in another county is retu.ned thither. Parents, grandparents, children, grand-children, and brothers and sisters are liable for support of a pauper. For bringing a pauper into a county where he has no legal settle- ment there is a penalty of 100 dollars. If the county commissioners build and maintain a poor-house, the justices of the peace cease to be overseers, and townships cease to be chargeable for support of the poor.

Finance, Defence. — For the year ending Nov, 30, 1912, the receipts

and disbursements of the State funds were : —

DoUar.s Balance, December 1, 1911 .... 489,550

Receipts 1911-12

Total

Disbursements, 1911-12.

Balance, November 30, 1912.

5,307,296

5,796.846 5,223,235

573,611

The State has no debt. In 1907 the assessed valuation of real and personal property amounted to 328,757,579 dollars.

The militia, or National Guard, with its headquarters at Lincoln, consists of cavahy, artiller}?', and infantry ; total strength, 108 officers and 1,299 men. The number (unorganised) liable to military service is 128,000,

Production and Industry.— Nebraska is one of the most important agricultural States of the Union. In 1910 it contained 129,678 farms with a total area of 38,622,021 acres, of which 24,382,577 acres was improved land. The Federal irrigation scheme, completed in 1911, embraces 110,000 acres in the arid region of Nebraska and Wyoming. The principal crops are