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UNITED STATES : — TENNESSEE

About 40 per cent, of the Church membership in the State are Baptist, and 33 per cent. Methodist ; Presbyterians and Disciples of Christ rank next; and then Roman Catholics.

School attendance is now compulsory throughout the State and the employment of children under 14 years of age in workshops, factories or mines is illegal. There are separate schools for white and for coloured children. In 1918 the 7,313 public elementary schools had 591,346 enrolled pupils with 12,947 teachers. 226 public high schools had 1,396 teachers and 30,534 pupils in 1918. Total expenditure on education for year ending June, 1918, 7,702,014 dollars. There are in the State 2 public normal schools with 71 teachers and 914 pupils in 1918. Higher education is provided ir. 26 universities and colleges, the more important of which (1919) are:

Begun

Institutions

Professors

Students

1867

University of Chattanooga (M.E.) ....

27

815

1794

University of Tennessee at Knoxville (State).

225

1,893

1866

Fisk University at Nashville (Cong.)

40

468

1875

Vanderbilt University at Nashville (non-sectarian).

145

785

1842

Cumberland University at Lebanon (Presb.)

21

225

1868

University of the South, Sewanee (P. E.)

22

239

There are also 7 colleges for women, 8 commercial schools, a manual training school within the State, and 3 universities for coloured students.

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 1,569, being 71 8 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institu- tions, 2,642, being 1209 per 100,000 of the population.

Finance. — For the fiscal period ending December 20, 1919, the revenue and expenditure were : —

Dollars Balance, Dec. 21. 1918 . . . 720,668

Receipts, 1918-19. . . . 11,622,903

Total. Disbursements,

1918-19

Balance, Dec. 20, 1919

12,343,571 10,209,023

2,134,548

The bonded debt (including old bonds unfunded) on June 13, 1919, amounted to 17,988,352 dollars. The assessed value of property (1919) was, including real and personal property, 726,369,281 dollars.

Production and Industry.— In 1910 there were 246,012 farms in the State with an acreage of 20,041,657, of which 10,890,484 acres was improved land. Total value of all farm property in 1910 was 612,620,836 dollars. The most important crop is maize, amounting in 1920 to 93,100,000 bushels. The wheat yield was 4,028,000 bushels. Oats, hay, potatoes and sweet potatoes, pease, sorghum, and other products are grown, the physical conditions permitting a great diversity of crops. Peanuts are grown in the Tennessee valley. The cotton crop for 1920 covered 824,000 acres and yielded 310,000 hales, valued at 20,150,000 dollars. The tobacco crop (1920) from 117,000 acres was 85,410,000 pounds valued at 17,082,000 dollars. Fruit-trees and small fruits (notably strawberries) are cultivated There are