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UNITED STATES: — TEXAS
Founded
Institutions
Control
Professors
Students
1885
St. Edward's Coll., Austin
R.C.
15
115
1883
Univ. of Texas, Austin
State
170
1,939
1890
Howard Payne Coll
Bapt.
1(1
353
1876
Agr. and Meeh. Coll
State
60
1,082
1881
Fort Worth Univ
M.E.
83
809
1891
Polytechnic Coll
M.E. So.
25
441
1873
S.W. Univ
M.E. So.
51
son
1873
Texas Criristian Univ
Chr.
22
370
1845
Baylor Univ., Waco . . . . .
Bapt.
77
079
1SG9
Trinity Univ., Waxahachie
Presb.
11
227
1003
College of Industrial Arts
State
23
271
The Prairie View State College (Normal and Industrial) for coloured youths had 36 professors and 1,112 students in 1910-11.
Charity. — A]>art from almshouses and establishments for the insane there are within the State 76 benevolent institutions, 14 of whicii are public, the rest being provided by private charity, and by religious bodies. They comprise 31 hospitals (one federal, six municipal), a dispensary, 17 orphan- ages, 24 liomes for adults and children, and three State schools for the deaf or blind. The County Commissioners provide for the poor resident in their counties, and have the management of the almshouses.
Finance, Defence. — The receipts and disbursements of the General Fund in the year ending August 31, 1912, were: —
Dollars
Balance, Aug. 31, 1911 413,12-1
Receipts, 1911-12 9,619,697
Total . Disbursements, 1911-12
Balance, Aug. 31, 1912
10,032,821 9,602,388
430,433
The bonded debt in 1912 amounted to 3,977,500 dollars. The bonds are held mostly by State educational and charitable funds. In 1910 the assessed value of taxable j)roperty was 2,388,500,124 dollars.
The Organised Militia or Texas National Guard consists of four troops of cavalry, a battery of field artillery, and three regiments of infantry, having a total strength in 1910 of 216 officers and 2,513 enlisted men.
Production and Industry.— Texas is one of the most important agricultural States of the Union. In 1910 it had 417,770 farms with an area of 112,435,067 acres of farmland, of Avhich 27,360,666 acres was improved land. In the arid region of Texas and New Mexico an area of 160,000 acres is to be reclaimed under the Federal Reclamation Act. The chief crops in 1912 were (in bushels) maize, 153,300,000; wheat, 11,025,000; oats, 31,140,000; rice 9,429,000; potatoes, 3,276,000. The yield of cotton in 1910 covered 10,060,000 acres, and yielded 3,072,932 bales. In 1911, the yield was 4,256,427 bales and the estimated yield for 1912, 4,850,000 bales. Other products are tobacco (140,000 pounds in 1912), cane-sugar (10,000 pounds in 1909-10), sorghum, vegetables, and fruits (especially peaches). The State has a very great live-stock industry; in 19l0.it contained 1,-369,000 horses, 702,000 mules, 1,137,000 milk cows,
