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MaAps.-—The larger charts consist of sixteen sheets, mounted as a 
single outline map of the United States, in size 17 by 12 feet, six'in num- 
ber, as follows : 
1. Showing in five classes, by degrees of tinting, the value of the farm- 
lands of the United States by groups of counties, the first class inelud- 
ing all below $10 per acre; the second, those not less than $10, and not 
exceeding $20; the third, those not less than $20, and not exceeding $30; 
the fourth, $30, and not exceeding $40; the fifth, $40 and over. 
2. Showing, by five degrees of color, the average monthly wages 
through the year of farm-labor (without board) in the several States, 
from records of an investigation made by the statistical division in 1875. 
The classes are as follows: Under $20: South Carolina, $12.84; 
North Carolina, $13.46; Alabama, $13.60; Georgia, $14.40; Virginia, 
$14.84; Tennessee, $15.20; Florida, $15.50; Mississippi, $16.40; Ken- 
tucky, $18.12 ; Louisiana, $18.40; Missouri, $19.40; Texas, 19.50. Under 
$25: Maryland, $20.02; Delaware, $20.33; Arkansas, $20.50; West Vir- 
ginia, $20.75; New Mexico, $22.75; Kansas, $23.20; Nebraska, $24; Ohio, 
$24.05; Indiana, $24.20; Iowa, $24.35. Under 30: Illinois, $25.20; 
Maine, $25.40; Wisconsin, $25.50; Pennsylvania, $25.89; Minnesota, 
$26.16; New York, $27.14; Michigan, $28.22; Connecticut, $28.25; New 
Hampshire, $28.57; Vermont, $29.67. Under $35: Rhode Island, $30; 
New Jersey, $30.71; Massachusetts, $31.87; Dakota, $32.50. $35 and 
over: Washington, $35; Utah, $35.50; Oregon, $38.25; Colorado, $38,50; 
California, $44.50; Montana, $45; Wyoming, $47.50. 
3. Showing by groups of counties, in five shades of color, the propor- 
tion of woodlands in the farm-areas reported in the last census. The 
first class includes all counties with less than 15 per cent. in forest, the 
other classes divided, respectively, by 30, 45, and 60 per cent. . 
4, Showing the distribution of the product of the sugar-crops—cane, 
sorghum, maple, and beet—and indicating, by three shades of color, the 
relative amount of such production in groups of counties. 
5d. Showing the distribution of the production of the textile ibers— 
cotton, hemp, flax, and wool—and indicating the localities of greatest 
production by three shades of color in each. Counties producing less 
than 1,000 bales of cotton, 50 tons of hemp, 100,000 pounds of fax fiber, 
or 100,000 pounds of wool are not indicated. 
6. Showing the area in fruits of all kinds, by tints of States in four 
degrees of density, and indicating the prominent fruit sections and 
kinds of fruits most grown in each. The first class includes all States 
in which the entire fruit-area does not exceed 1 per centum of the im- 
proved land in farms; %. ¢., all farm-lands exclusive of forest and waste 
areas, viz: Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and the Territories ; the second, 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Wisconsin; third, 
New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, 
Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, California, Oregon ; fourth, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary- 
land, Florida, Michigan, Missouri. 
CHARTS.—The larger charts are as follows: 
1. Showing the corn and wheat production of the country, with the 
exports, seed used, and homeconsumption for five years, constituting the 
first half of the present decade. It is 7 feet 6 inches in height and 4 
feet 6 inches wide, with diagrams presenting these details of average 
production on a scale of three-fourths of a million bushels to the square 
inch. It is a lucid and striking showing, especially to foreigners unfa- 
