The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-01-16
PRODUCTS.
statistics from the Annual Crop Re
port for 1896.

port tor 1896.
COLUMBIA, Mo-. January 1.-THE
following extract from advance sheets
of the annual Missouri crop report
of 1886 was given out to-day by Col.
J. Il. I;ippey. secretary of the state
board of agriculture, which meets in
Columbia to-mOrrowinannual session.
Missouri produced in 1886 POO. 900,
900 bushels of corn, 13. COO. 0G0 bushels
of wheat, 22,GG0, 900 bushels of oats,
$500, 600 o II of hay. II. OO9. 900 pounds
of cotton. 1000, 900 pounds of tobacco,
$50. 600 bushels of iaxseed. 5000. 900
bushels of potatoes.
The estimated annual value of the
fruit crop is: Apples, $IO.O 900, 600:
Strawberries. 800, 900: grapes, 81, OOO,-
0 0;raspberries, b~lackbcrries, peaches.
plums and other fruit. 81. 900. GOO, or a
total or S12, 500, COO.
The diary business OF this state. ex-
elusive of the Investments % farmers
and their products. andincluding only
the creameries and dairies that have
made reports 10 this Office, requires
for its support the products of 132. 900
acres of land, valued at 81. 900. 900: has
5000. 900 invested in diary buildings:
owns $4,000 COWS. valued at $500, 600.
and annually produces for market
y nhl OHl nnln1y IF hI4f,, con npn
pounds of cheesea and 10, 200, OO0gallons
of milk, or a total investment of over
$1,000. 900, making a gross annual re-
turn in diary products of 81, 500. ZOO.
y review OF the agricultural con
dition aud the productions ofMissouri
indicates the unlimited possibilities of
the state. She has an area of about
1000, 600 acres, the largest iron
mountain in the world. twenty counties
with az unlimited supply of iron, D.
600 square miles of coal area and an
annual output of 1900. 900 tons, lead
mines operated in twenty-Six counties.
and the most productive single mine
in America. and a total annual pro-
ductiOn of 81. 0G0 tons of pig lead.
she also leads in zinc production,
with an annual output of l3l, coo tons.
she mas extensive q]uarTiCs of red ard
gray granite: rid, gray, crt am-cOlCrcd
and notified marble: onyX. limestone
sandstone. She has the largest stock
feeding farm, producing It's own grain,
the largcstnursery, the largest orchard,
and the largest jack breeding and i'm
porting establishment in the world.
Among breeders of live stock her i'm
proved hogs, cattle. sheep, horses and
mules are winners in competition with
the hes: animals in the world, and are
widely drawn upon by the breeding
harems OF other states and countries.
Our live stock is enumerated and
assessed as follows: Horses. 9lS. COO
head, value S23, OG0, 0G0: mules, 81. 900
head. value 5000. OOO; COWS. 723, 900
head, value 81 Goo. 900: other cattle.
1855. 900 head. value $I.i15, 600:
swine. 3.169. 900 head. value Sl2.363.-
OO0-or Il total assessed valuation of
$50, 100, 600, which is probably about
nall the real value.
Noting the probable increase or re-
duction in commodities. as reported by
correspondents and other, reliable
sources. we have shipped from the
state in l>.6, approximately. 100. 900
head OF cattle. ".@GO. 0G0 head of hogs.
0 1000 head of horses. 3GO, COO head of
sheep. 1900. Geo pounds OF wool, 80
900, 900 pounds of poultry. p, G0G. 600
dozen eggs, 2jO.G eco, 600 feet Of lumber,
2.5C0. 900 railroad ties. loco. eco feet OF
piiing. 1000, 0c0 pounds of pickles. b.
900, 600 pounds of Canned goods and
1000, 0GO pounGs Of hides.
Missouri need make no other claim
to grandeur thana fairprcsentation Of
her unrivaled scarce y statement
of her conditions, an estimate of her
productions and the versatility of her
soil. the extent and variety Of her
minerals, her railroads and navisable
streams, her churches and school
houses and school funds and her
genial climate speak for her with I'M
questionable declaration that she is
Imperial mistress Of states, an en-
pire within herself"