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Production and Industry. — Agriculture is the chief industry of the State, which has a semi-tropical climate and a rich soil. In 1910 the farm? numbered 274,352 with an area of 1S,557,533 acres, of which 9,008,310 acres was improved land. The total value of all farm property in 1910 was 4:26,314,634 dollars. The chief product is cotton, which was grown on 3,024,000 acre?, and yielded 8*5,000 bales in 1920, rained at 767,772,000 dollars. Other crops are make, 63,680,000 bushels in 1920 ; rice, wheat, oats, potatoes. On January 1, 1921, there were in the State 256,000 horses, 312,000 mules, 571.000 milch cows, 6SO.0OO other cattle, 149,000 sheep, and 1,783,000 swine. In 1919 the wool clip yielded 656.000 lbs.
Though there are mineral deposits in Mississippi such as hydraulic limestone, coal, gypsum, and rich clay, there is no mining enterprise.
In 1910 there were 2,598 establishments engaged in the manufacturing industries; their aggregate capital amounted to 72,393,000 dollars; they employed 3,403 clerks, Ac., and 50,384 wage-earners ; the raw mater: ooat $6,9*26,000 dollars, aud their output was valued at 80,555,000 dollars. The most important industries are associated with the products of the State, and statistics are given in The Statesman's Yeab-Book for 1916, p. 555.
The State in 1917 had 4,447 mile* of railway, besides 117 miles of electric railway (1919). The railroads with greatest length of line in the State are the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley, the Illinois Central, the Southern, the Mobile and Jackson and Kansas City, the Mobile and Ohio, and the Gulf and Ship Island railways. The Mississippi river and the Gulf Coast provide natural facilities for transport.
In 1918, there were 11 savings banks in the Slate, with 15,000 depositors who had to their credit 4,493,451 dollars, being 299 56 dollars to each de- positor.
Books of Reference.
The Reports of the various Executive Departments of the State.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Registers, 1904, 1908-1913. (Next Volume, 1916).
Encyclopaedia of ! -J Vis. 1907. (Full and complete, 154O-1907V
Mississippi Provincial Archives. Vol.1. (En.'ish Dominion), 1763-6«.
Mississippi Territorial Archives. Vol. 1. iTyS-1808.
Publications of the M.s>is$ippi Historical SoeiMy. 14 vols.
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Government. — Missouri was admitted to the Union on March 2, 1821. The General Assembly consists of a Senate of 34 members elected for four years (half their number retiring every two years), and House of Re- presentatives of 142 members elected for two years.
The right of suffrage extends (with the usual exceptions) to all citizens and to aliens who, not less than one nor more than five years before the election, have declared their intention of becoming citizens ; but all who vote must have been resident in the State one year, and in the county or city 60 days next before the election.
Missouri is represented in Congress by two Senators and 16 Rsprosan tatives.
Govtmor.— Arthur M. Hyde, 1921-25 (5.000 dollars). Secretary of State — John L. Sullivan.
