Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1915-10-14
SOME MINNESOTA FACTS
Has 632 legal newspapers.
Is nineteenth in population.
Minnesota has 285 -four mills.
Minnesota has five paper mills.

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Is nineteenth in population.
Minnesota has 2S5 -four mills.
Minnesota has FIVE paper mills.
Is eleventh in size In the Union.
Has average temperature Of 4l.5.
Minnesota has 70 cheese factories.
Has an area Of SS,365 square miles.
There are sc counties in the state.
Has 1859 banks, state and national.
The 1914 yield was 5,245,000 bushels.
Minnesota has 1,125 900 mich cows.
Minnesota has over 5000 factories.
Minnesota's geese viii number 1885,
16l.
Has 1882 miles OF navigable Wa
tiers.
Has a free travelling library sys-
tenn.
Minnesota stands fifth as q barley
state.
Owns richest iron deposits In the
world.
Has IA population of 2.o75,70s. t1e1O
census.)
Is one of the healthiest states In
the Union.
Leads the world in manufacture Of
linseed OIL
Minnesota Is one Of the leading
oats states.
Has an average Of rs people to the
square mile,
In natural resources Is richest state
in the Union.
Has an inexhaustible supply Of
building stone.
For 1914 the wheat yield was A.
$4,000 bushels.
Has 157 public, association and
school libraries.
Minnesota ranks among the first In
wheat production.
Ten thousand fresh water lakes
teeming with fish.
Minnesota is the state where clover
grows like a weed.
Millions of ducks swarm the 10000
lakes in Minnesota.
Has second largest educational
fund in the nation.
Minnesota has the largest iron
mines in the world.
Has 100000 acres of unsold state
and homestead land.
There are ga building and loan as
sociations in the state.
Is one of the foremost states In
production of foodstuffs.
One OF the finest state capitol build
ings in the United States.
Is 405 miles from north to south and
354 miles from east to west.
Minnesota has, at Duluth, the larg-
est inland port In the world.
Prairie chickens are plentiful in the
prairie sections of Minnesota.
Has 9,339 miles of railway, not in
Guiding trackage Of terminals.
Minnesota's five year average was
only 3.3 bushels below first place.
Permanent state school funds which
will ultimately reach $200,000,O00.
The average number OF turkeys
raised in Minnesota yearly Is 147,335.
The poultry and egg production of
Minnesota amounts to 100000 an
nuaiIy.
Minnesota has 2,540 acres In state
parks and an equal amount In state
forests.
Minnesota has an unexcelled state
university and FIVE state normal
schools.
Minnesota is the only state which
has a creamery of its own for expert
mentation.
Has on an average 14S clear sun
shiny days, ITO partly cloudy and lot
cloudy days.
Alfalfa natures and liz a profitable
crop even In the most northern parts
Of the state.
Minnesota leads all other states In
average yield Of hay per acre. 1.89
tons in 1879
In 1910 Minnesota had 10,296,942
chickens not counting those kept in
cities and villages.
Has taken highest average score
on butter 10 times out OF IL In con
tests open to the world.
The 1918 potato crop was IA per
cent above the average and gave q
yield Of 30.7s0,000 bushels.
All such small fruits as strawberries,
raspberries. cuTrants, gooseberries, etc.
yield abundantly on Minnesota soil.
Butter to the amount Of 123,117,912
pounds is made every year by Mime
sofa creameries.
These cheese factories make 1884,
SIS pounds Of cheese each year.
The greatest Touring mills in the
woria