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The net indebtedness on September 1, 1920, amounted to 3,040,524 dollars. The assessed value in 1919 of real pro:«erty was 412,591,376 dollars and of personal property 90,815,543 dollars.

The militia of the* State, called the New Hampshire State Guard, consists of artillery and infantry.

There is no federal naval establishment within the State, though the navy yard at Kittery, Me., is known as the Portsmouth Navy Yard, because Ports- mouth, N. H.. is its port of entry.

Production and Industry. — The majority of the population is em- ployed in agriculture, but manufacturing interests are not far behind. The total land area of the State is 5,779,840 acres, of which 1,441,000 acres are cultivated, 720,000 acres uncultivated, and 3,602,000 acres under forest. In 1910 there were 27,053 farms with a total acreage of 3,249,468 acres, or 120 1 acres to each farm, and of this 929,185 acres were improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 103,704, 196 dollars. The chief crops are (1920) in order of importance, hay (540,000 tons), corn (405,000 bushels), potatoes (1,950,000 bushels), oats (546,000 bushels); the chief truit crop is apples. On January 1, 1921, the farm animals in the State were 39,000 horses, 101,000 milch cows, 70,000 other cattle, 81,000 sheep, and 57,000 swine. In 1919 the wool clip yielded 202,000 pounds.

Minerals are little worked, but granite and mica are quarried, and mineral waters and scythe stones are worked.

The manufacturing interests, aside from forest products, are largely confined to the Southern part of the State. In 1910 the capital invested in manufactures amounted to 139,990,000 dollars ; the wage-earners numbered 78,658 ; the raw materials used were valued at 98,157,000 dollars and the output at 164,581,000 dollars. Boots and shoes rank first, followed by cotton and woollen goods. An important occupation in the State is the summer entertainment of guests in the mountain and lake regions.

The Boston and Maine Railroad owns or leases all the steam railroad lines within the State except the Grand Trunk in the extreme north. In 1917 the length of steam railway in the State was 1,253 miles, and of electric rail- way in 1919, 246 miles.

In 1919 there were 11 savings banks in the State, with 29,308 depositors, who had to their credit 10,857,000 dollars, being 370*44 dollars to each depositor. There were also 45 mutual savings banks, with 215,028 depositors, who had to their credit 110,241,000 dollars, being 51268 dollars to each depositor.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the Various Departments of State Government. Drew (W. J), New Hampshire Register. Concord, >\H. Annual McClimtock (J. K.\ History of N'ew Hampshire. Concord, N.H. Palfrti (J. G.). Historr of New England. Boston, Mass., 1906. Bollim if. W ). Guide to New Hampshire. Concord, N. H. Annual.