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 CHARITY — FINANCE — PRODUCTION, ETC. 625

Virginia has (1918) 2 schools of theology, with 104 students ; 3 of law, with 227 students ; 3 of medicine, witV 488 students ; 2 of dentistry, with 50 students ; and 2 of pharmacy, with 76 students, besides many business schools, and schools for industrial and manual training.

Charity. — Besides almshouses and asylums for the insane, &c. , there are within the State 1 15 benevolent institutions, most of which have been provided by private charity or by religious bodies. From October 1, 1918, to September 30, 1919, 3,236 persons were supported in 101 almshouse*.

Finance. — The revenue and expenditure for year ending September 30,

1919, are shown thus : —

Dollars

On hand October 1, 1918 800.760

Receipts, 1918-19 .... 13,035,622

Total 13,836.382

Disbursements, 1918-19 12,651

Balance, September 30, 1919. . . 1,184,617 The bonded debt of the State amounts (October 1, 1919) to 22,912,216 dollars. The assessed valuation of property for 1919 was : Real estate, 797,414,198 dollars ; personal, 535.859,124 dollars: total, 1,333,273,322 dollars. Total in 1918, 1,270,149,000 dollars.

Production and Industry. — In 1910 there were 184,018 farms in Virginia with an area of 19,495,636 acres, of which 9,870,058 acres was im- proved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 625,065,383 dollars. In 1920 the chief crops were maize, 50,100,000 bushels ; wheat, 11,425,000 bushels ; oats, 4,818,000 bushels: potatoes, 13,608,000 bushels. The tobacco area was 243,000 acres, yielding 177,390,000 pounds of tobacco valued at 42,574,000 dollars. The cotton crop for 1920 covered 39,000 acres and yielded 19,000 bales, valued at 1,425,000 dollars. The manufacture of tobacco and of cigars, ftc, is an important industry, and the Virginia cotton mills consume much more cotton than the State produces.

The domestic animals on January 1, 1921, were 351,000 horses, 65,000 mules, 428,000 milch cows, 567.000 other cattle, 714.000 sheep, 1,026,000 swine. The wool clip in 1919 yielded 1,962,000 pounds of wool.

The State has valuable fisheries, especially of oysters.

Virginia has considerable mineral wealth. In 1917 the output comprised coal, 10,087,091 short tons (20,125,713 dollars) ; coke, 1,304,230 short tons (5,785,934 dollars) ; granite and other stone (1,739,946 dollars) ; lime (1,820,446 dollars); clay products (1,664,305 dollars) : iron ores, 472.311 long tons (1,182,338 dollars). The production of pig-iron estimated at 7,500,000 dollars, and of manganese ores at 700,000 dollars. Altogether 35 mineral materials were mined, valued at about 45,000,000 dollars. The pro- duction of lead and zinc was valued at about 700,000 dollars.

There are extensive ironworks in the State, and flour-milling, manufactures of paper and pulp, trunks and bags, glass, and many other articles are pros- perous. According to the Federal census of manufactures in 1910 there were in the State 5,685 manufacturing establishments, with an aggregate capital of 216,392,000 dollars, employing 8,551 salaried officials and 105,676 wage- earners ; wages amount annually to 38,154,000 dollars : the cost of raw ma- terials used amounted to 125,583,000 dollars, and the value of the output was 219,794,000 dollars. Statistics of the more important industries for 1910 are given in The Statesman's Ybar-Book for 1916, p. 625.