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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884
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75 The latter quantity of grain, if massed in one place, would cover a township of land ten feet deep; or if piled upon a* base one hundred feet square would tower into the sky more than ten miles. In quantity of barley raised''Illinois stands eighth; in Indian corn, first by more than 100,0^0,000 bushels; Iowa next. In oats, first, Iowa second, New York third. In rye, second, Pennsylvania first. In wheat, first, Indiana second, Ohio third. In total grain, unquestionably and largely first. Other farm products have been thus: 1850 Wool, pounds 2,150,113 Tobacco, p o u n d s . . . . 821,391 Potatoes, bu 2,514,861 Hay, tons 601,952 J860 1,989,567 6,885,262 5,540,390 1,774,554 1870 5,739,249 5,249,724 10,944,790 2,747,339 1880 6,093,006 3,935,825 10,365,707 3,280,319 In wool Ohio excels, with 25 million pounds; tobacco, Kentucky, with 171 million pounds; potatoes, New York, with 33 million bushels ; hay, Iowa, with 3,600,000 tons. The products of live stock are thus: Horses Mules and asses... Totals Working oxen Milch cows Other cattle Totals, c a t t l e . . . . Sheep Swine 1850 267,653 10,573 278,226 76,156 294,671 541,209 812,036 894,043 1,915,907 1860 563,736 38,539 602,275 90,380 522,634 960,799 1,583,813 769,135 2,502,308 1870 858,738 8|,075 938,813 19,766 640,321 1,055,499 1,715,586 1,568,286 2,703,343 1880 1,023,032 123,278 1,146,360 3,346 865,913 1,515,499 2,834,758 1,037,073 5,170,266 Total live stock. 3,900,212 Total-value $24,209,508 Value farm impl's. 6,405,561 4,547,531 6,926,018 9,738,457 $72,501,225 $149,756,698 $132,437,762 17,235,472 34,576,587 33,736,951 In number of horses, Illinois stands first, Iowa second; milch cows, Illinois second, New York first: other cattle, Illinois third, Texas first, Iowa second; swine, Illinois second, Iowa first; total value of live stock, Illinois first, Iowa second. The value of all farm products consumed, sold, or on hand, for 1879, was $203,980,137, higher by $25,000,000 than those of any other State, New Zork coming next. Turning now to the manufacturing industries of the State, it will certainly surprise one who has not given special attention* to this subject., to find that Illinois stands fourth in the list of States, both
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