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 752 UNITED STATES : — NEBRASKA

2,194 teachers and 38,299 pupils. There are 4 State normal schools with 118 teachers and 3,804 students and 2 private normal schools. Total expendi- ture on education in 1919 was 16,960,314 dollars. Higher instruction is provided in academic institutions, of which the more important are (1919) : —

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Institution 1 ProfeMO™, Ac.

Students

1871 1878 1887 1889

Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln (State). '■ 290 Creighton Univ., Omaha (R.C.). . . ; . 130 Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. (M.E.) ... 1 45 Cotner University, Bethany (Disciples). i 25

6,P58 1,309

812 3S7

A grant of 3,000,000 acres of public lands for permanent endowment of her schools was made by the Federal Government. Of this 1,661,405 acres are still held by the State. Further sale of this land, with some minor exceptions, is forbidden, Nebraska being the only State which has adopted the policy. The total value of the permanent school endowment is 21,564,714 dollars.

On August 1, 1920, the charitable and penal institutions had 5,105 inmates. The appropriation for their maintenance for the year ending March 31, 1821, was 3,992,770 dollars,

Finance. — For the biennium ending November 30, 1920, the receipts and disbursements of the State funds were : —

Dollars Balance, December 1, 1918 .... 868,744

Receipts, 1918-20 25,239,505

Total 26,108,249

Disbursements, 1918-20 25,427,019

Balance, November 30, 1920. . . 681,230

The State has no debt. In 1919 the assessed valuation of real and personal property (under a law requiring the assessed value to be 20% of the actual value) amounted to 568,456,926 dollars, of which 212,697,098 dollars was personal, and 355,759,828 dollars real property.

Production and Industry. — Nebraska is one of the most important agricultural States In 1910 it contained 129,678 farms with a total area of 38,622,021 acros, of which 24,382,577 acres was improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 2,079,818,647 dollars. The Federal irrigation district in Western Nebraska embraces 300,000 acres, two-thirds of which is already under water. The principal crops are cereals, hay, potatoes, and apples. In 1920 the yield of maize was 255,528,000 bushels ; wheat, 60,480,000 bushels ; oata, 83,040,000 bttshel§. Href-sugar is also produced, 125,000,000 pounds being the estimate for 1916. The live-stock industry is pursued on a large scale. On January 1, 1921, the State con- tained 965,000 horses, 99,000 mules, 560,000 milch cows, 2,650,000 other cattle, 290,000 sheep, and 3,063,000 swine. From 217,000 sheep in 1919 the wool clip yielded 1,730,000 pounds of wool.

Nebraska has some quarries and mines. The more important of these »r« sand quarries, limestone qttftrries, potash plants, and brick and tile