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 622 UNITED STATES : — VERMONT

French, 11,415 Canadian English, 4,938 Irish, 2,463 English, and 2,615 Scottish. The largest cities are Burlington, with a population in 1920 of 22,779 ; Rutland, 14,954 ; Barre, 10,008. Of the population in 1910, 47 "5 per cent, was urban.

The religious denominations are Roman Catholic, Congregational, Methodist, Baptist, and Protestant Episcopal, in the order given.

School attendance during the full school term is compulsory for children from 6 to 15 years of age. No child under 16 who has not completed the 9 year school course may be employed in any railway, factory, mine, or quarry work, or as messenger during school hours. In 1920 the 2,394 public schools had 2,972 teachers and 62,228 enrolled pupils. The University of Vermont. (1800) had, in 1920, 118 instructors and 930 students; Middlebury College (1800) had 33 instructors and 447 students ; Norwich University (1834) had 29 instructors and 250 students.

During 1919 the number of persons receiving aid from the towns was 3,104, and on January 1, 1920, the number of persons in State institu- tions were as follows : House of correction, 55 ; State prison, 131 ; hospital for insane, 723 ; school for feeble-minded, 109 ; industrial school, 239.

Finance, Defence. — The revenue and expenditure for the year ending June 30, 1920, were :—

Dollars Cash balance July 1, 1919. . . . . 557,715

Receipts, 1919-20 6,788,632

Total 7,346,347

Disbursements, 1919-20 5,381,225

Cash balance July 1, 1920 1,965,122

The assessed value of real property in 1920 was 187,364,577 dollars, and of personal property, 74,736,570 dollars.

The National Guard on July 1, 1920, had 28 officers and 539 enlisted men.

Production and Industry. — Agriculture is the most important occupation within the State. In 1920 the State contained 29,075 farms with a total area of 4,233,811 acres, of which 1,691,595 acres was improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1920 was 222,736,620 dollars. In 1916 the rural population was 52 per cent, of the total population. The chief agricultural crop is hay (1,748,358 tons in 1920), but cereals are still grown in large quantities ; in 1920 the yield of oats was 2,396,349 bushels ; of maize, 937,375 bushels, together with 475,161 tons of silage; wheat, 176,003 bushels; and barley, 196,815 bushels. The pro- duction of potatoes in 1920 was 2,277,387 bushels; of tobacco, 165,000 pounds ; apples and maple sugar and syrup are important.

Cattle raising, especially of milk cows, is one of the chief agricultural pursuits. In 1920 Veimout had 435,480 cattle on farms, or nearly one- third of all the cattle in New England. The value of livestock on Vermont farms in 1920 was 28,502,803 dollars. Vermont leads all the States of the Union in pounds of butter per capita, pounds of butter per farm, pounds of butter per cow, and in ratio of dairy cows to population. On January 1, 1921, Vermont had 275,000 milch cows, 186,000 other cattle, 84,000 horses, 91,000 sheep, and 105,000 swine. In 1919 the wool clip yielded 690,000 bs.