IOWA. 



501 



, mail and express $9,801.100 18 



Freight and miscellaneous 86,142,887 82 



Total earnings for the year ending June 80, 

 1886 $86,128,58746 



Total earnings for the year ending June 30, 

 1884 85,785,271 85 



Increase over previous year, or for Iowa 

 an increase of 1'07 per cent $388,315 60 



The total amount of taxes paid by the rail- 

 roads in Iowa is $768,274.43, which is $112,- 



874.93 less than last year. Some of the roads 

 have availed themselves of the provisions of 

 the present law and paid hut one half their 

 taxes before they reported. 



Population. The State census taken this 

 year shows a considerable increase in the 

 population. The following table gives the 

 number of inhabitants by counties in 1880 

 and 1885 : 



The following table gives the population of 

 the principal cities of the State, from the cen- 

 ; sus of 1885, together with their population in 

 1870 and 1880 : 



Creston has 7,393 inhabitants ; Fort Dodge, 

 ' 4,552; and Boone, 4,331. 



Farm Statistics. The following figures are 

 ' taken from the census of 1885, which for farm 

 (items is not complete, some townships failing 

 j to report : 



! A. verage size of farm, acres 142 



i Acres of improved land 20,189.894 



A cres of unimproved land 8,058,853 



f Acres in cultivation 12,874.865 



i Acres in pasture 6,265,858 



Farms managed by owner 137,886 



Farms managed by manager 2,009 



Farms managed by tenant for money-rent 12,278 



Farms managed by tenant for crop-rent 80,102 



Irish potatoes, bushels 11,272,154 



Sweet potatoes, bushels 214,971 



Tobacco, pounds 440,WO 



Indian corn, bushels 218,058,131 



Spring wheat, bushels 15,832,725 



Winter wheat, bushels 786,459 



Oats, bushels 86,560,439 



Eye, bushels 1,884,252 



Barley, bushels 6,722,558 



Buckwheat, bushels 809,016 



Broom-corn, tons 2,740 



Sorghum-sirup, gallons 1,971,818 



Sorghum-sugar, pounds 73,583 



Timber, acres planted 120,737 



Apple-trees in bearing 4,888,696 



Apples, bushels gathered 4,113,591 



Honey, pounds 1,997,931 



Cattle, thoroughbred 9,679 



Cattle, grades 876,651 



Cattle, work-oxen 6,769 



Cattle, milch-cows 992,318 



Cattle, all others 2,104,191 



Cattle slaughtered and sold for slaughter 610,088 



Horses, total Jan. 1 848,767 



Horses sold for export 83,850 



Hogs, total Jan. 1 1,328, 190 



Hogs slaugh tered or sold for slaughter 8,1 86,431 



Sheep, total Jan. 1 441,047 



Sheep slaughtered or sold for slaughter 116,765 



Wool, pounds 2,289,430 



Educational Statistics. The following items 



are derived from the census of 1885: Number 



of State institutions of learning, 9; colleges 



and universities, 23 ; academies and semina- 

 ries, 16; normal schools, county high- schools, 



