48 



Per person employed 



Manufacturing . 

 Agriculture . . . . 

 Steam railroads 

 Mining 



4,182.94 

 17.630.93 



10,512.78 

 1.287.11 



Value added 

 to products 



2,406.76 

 2,956.63 

 2,627.27 

 1,971.15 



employed and the large production per man indicates the degree to 

 which the art of agriculture has developed and, by inference, reveals 

 the handicap under which the owners of farms on the poorer soils com- 

 pete with their more fortunately situated neighbors, and offers an ex- 

 planation of the tendency to abandon certain of the less fertile soils. 



In steam transportation, as is to be expected, the capital invested, 



'U. S. Census 1920. 



= .fSO,?')."; le.'ss 2,576 employed in fi.'slieries, and lumbering or forest industries. 



= The total of 220.361 rier.sons coveis all forms of transportation including motor, 

 street railway, and water tran.sport. From this, only those engaged in steam raliroad 

 transportation have been taken, totaling 107.110 persons. 



■I Capitalization of steam railroad.?, only. State Commerce Commi.«sion, Springfield. 



' Through the cooperation of Assistant Professor Roscoe R. Snapp of tjfie Depart- 

 ment of Animal Husbandry. University of Illinois, a tentative estimate was made of 

 the value of crops fed to live stock resulting in the following figures for which no 

 claim to mathematical accuracy is made. _ 



Value of all feed sold, U. S. 



Census $231,733,123 



Value of feed bought 64.528,040 



Net value of feed sold 167,205,083 



Value of animals and animal 



products produced 570,000,000 



Grand tot.il value of ani- 

 mals, animal products, 

 corn, oats, hay, etc., not 

 fed, approximately 737,205,083 



Values of wheat, fruits and 

 nuts. vegi't.ables. seeds, 

 miscellaneous crops, eggs, 

 poultry, honey, wool, dairy 

 products. nursery and 

 greenhouse products in- 

 cluding forest products. 

 U, S. Census, 1919 380.594,856 



$1,117,799,939 



The figure of $1,118,000,000 was Ihereforc adopted as the approximate 

 value of products of Illinois farms. The value of $1,298,906,947 as given by the U. S. 

 Census is stated by that authority to contain duplications from the fact that the 

 products fed to live stock were not separ.able. 



' Value added to products Is here assumed iis equal to the gross freight revenue. 



