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On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 2,388. being 72 - 5 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institu- tions 3,523, being 107 per 100,000 of the population.

Finance-— For the year 1920 the revenue and expenditure were:—

Dollars Balance, January 1, 1920. . 5,791,823

Receipts, 1920 ' 31,781,017

Total *40

Disbursements, 1920 .... 25,123,810

Balance, Jan. 1, 1921. 12.449,030

On January 1, 1921. the bonded debt of the State amounted to 5.899,83 dollars (interest being payable tc State funds). The assessed value of real property (1920) was 733,711,593 dollars ; of personal property, 1,748,034,453 dollars.

Production and Industry-— Agriculture is the chief occupation in the State. In 1910 the number of farms was 277,244, with a farm area of 34,591,248 acres, of which 24,581,000 acres was improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 2,052,917,488 dollars. The chief crops are cereals. In 1920 the maize crop amounted to 198,880,000 bushel-;, wheat to 32,721,000 bushels, and oats 54,138,000 bushels. Potatoes and sorghum are grown throughout the State. In the south-eastern lowlands the important product is cotton, the area under which (1920) was 148,000 acres, and the yield 85,000 bales, valued at 5,738,000 dollars. In 1920, 6,000 acres were under flax, yielding 45,000 bushels of flax-seed. The acreage in 1920 under tobacco was 6,000, from which the crop was 6,000,000 pounds, valued at 1,980,000 dollars. There are many orchards, and small fruit is grown. Stock-raising is important, especially the raising of hogs, of which, on Januarv 1, 1921, there were 4,047,000 in the State ; there were also 873,000 milch cows, 1,659,000 other cattle, 1,3S8,000 sheep, and 1,030,000 bones. The wool clip in 1918 yielded 7,614,000 pounds of wool.

Missouri leads all the other States in the production of zinc and lead. The productive coal-fields of Missouri have an area of about 14,000 square miles, and employ 11,104 miners. The output of red and brown hematite iron ore was considerable. Other minerals are zinc and lead. The lead ores at Mine Lamotte, Missouri, contain cobalt and nickel. Other products are Portland cement, grindstones, pig-iron, copper, bine and white lead, lime- stone, sandstone, and granite.

Missouri has prosperous manufacturing industries, the more important of which depend on agriculture and forestry. In 1910 there were 8,375 indus- trial establishments ; the canital invested in all the industries of the State amounted to 443,343,000 dollars ; the number of persons t-mployedin them (including proprietors, clerks, and wage-earners) was 185,705, and the year's output was valued at 574, 111,000 dollars. The chief industries, with their capital, their wage-earners, and their output in 1910, are given in Thk Statesman's Year-Book for 1916, p. 558.

St. Louis and Kansas City are important centres of the traffic in grain and live stock.

In the State there were in 1917, 8,230 miles of railway, besides 1,174 miles of electric railway track (1919). The northern portion ot the State is better