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cereals, hay, and potatoes. In 1912 the yield of maize was 182,616,000 bushels ; wheat, 55,082,000 bushels ; oats, 55,510,000 bushels. Beet-sugar is jjroduced. The live-stock industry is pursued on a large scale. In 1910 the State contained 1,045,000 horses, 72,000 mules, 879,000 milk cows 3,040,000 other cattle, 393,000 sheep, and 4,201,000 swine. From 250,000 sheep in 1911 the wool clip yielded 1,625,000 pounds of wool, valued at 300,625 dollars.

Nebraska has some quarries but no mines. Limestone and sandstone were quatried in 1911 to the value of 263,501 dollars, and the output of bricks and tiles was valued at 795,894 dollars. Total mineral output in 1911, 1,316,168 dollars.

The most important manufacturing industries are associated with the pastoral and agricultural produce of the State. In 1910 there were 2,500 manufacturing establishments in the State ; their aggregate capital amounted to 99,901,000 dollars ; the persons owning or working them (proprietors, firm members, clerks, &c., and wage-earners) numbered 31,966 ; the material used cost 151,081,000 dollars, and the output was valued at 199,019,000 dollars. The chief of these industries is slaughtering and meat-packing, which has its centre at South Omaha. Statistics of four industries are given ns follows : —

Wage- Cost of earners material

Industries

Capital

Output

Slaughtering .... Flour and Milling.

Butter

Foundries ....

Dollars 19,414,000 9,472.000 2,975,000 2,808,000

Number Dollars

6,015 78,358,000

839 15,217,000

383 6,435,000

1,020 1,516,000

Dollars

92,805,000

17,836,000

7,681 000

2,930,000

Other industries are printing and publishing, brewing, soap and caudle making, brick and tile work, smelting, sugar manufacture, &c.

In 1910 there were 6,067 miles of railway in the State, besides the 240 miles of electric railway track. The principal railway systems are the Union Pacific ; Chicago and North- Western ; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ; Chicago Eock Island and Pacific ; Illinois Central ; Chicago and Great Western ; Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. Omaha, standing on the Missouri, has not only a large river trafiic, but is a centre whence 14 trunk lines of railway radiate.

There is a British Yice-Consul at Omaha.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Executive Departments, especially those of the Auditor and of the Bureau of Labour and Statistics. Morton's History of Nebraska. 3 vols.