MICHIGAN. 



189ft and $1.171.000 for 1* !**?* **** 

 from the appropriations of 180$, which were t<> 



.:.. . rnojuoja Hi 



1,4*1 apportionment for taxes for 1805 was 

 mMMMM. 



*SeWral eonntke having held hack tax 

 land to have been collcrtrd and due the 

 the State petitioned as a U*t for a mandamni to 

 compel BswOonnlv to pay it* claim, amounting 

 to $111A40.4. The county alleged that a large 

 iaidur it from the SUfe, and that in 1884 

 H treasurer .m.neoasly accepted $'.- 



full amount due the county was 

 wrrmneh larger. The ease was settled in favor 

 of Uw Slate by the Supreme Court . 



Belnrna. Besides the statistics of 

 _,i given by the census of 1894. sum 

 m the" Annual Cyclopaedia" for that 

 jMT.it ha, afforded other details, howin>; the 



<f induri and product.,,,. giv< 

 fwUetin* issued by the SecreUry . 1805. 



Under the census law every establishment of 

 productive industrv. including mines and fish- 

 iris*, m which the value of the products 

 amounted to $000 or over, was to be reported. 

 Tne total number of .nduMrial establishments 

 of all kinds reported is 8312; capital invested, 

 $3M;t56j205: value of materials used. $125,748,- 

 110; value of productions, $287^57.772. The 

 average number employed is. Adult males, 146.- 

 153: adult females, 15,650: boys, 8,482; girls, 

 355. The total wages paid during 

 reported at $60.188,142 : t he average daily wages 

 paid to skilled mechanics. $1.00 ; to ordinaryla- 

 borers. $1.20. Compared with the census re- 

 tares for 1884, there is an increase of 88 in the 



1.1*1 in the 



capital, of 17.226 in the number of males, and of 

 7474 in t ho number of females employed, and of 

 in the wages paid. The number of 

 ' ee returned for this census 



in 



bM0t fewer than in 1884. 



'arm of leas than 8 acres was reported 



$200 worth of produce was 

 actually sold from it during th<- census year. 

 The number of acres of farms in the State is 

 I5J06J97H. or 42 prr < land area. 



In the upper peninsula they con^inm- 5 per 

 snU The number of farms reported is 178,051. 



of farms reported 



The average site is about 8*46 acres less than in 

 1884. An average of 67-86 per cent of the total 

 arm in farms is improved. The area in farms 

 mcnaeH in the four yean from 1880 to 1884 

 UM4J86 acres, or more than 2* times the in- 

 eteme in the ten years from 1884 to 1804. The 

 tine of hfsM, including land, fences. 



. land, fences, and 

 to be $88340.503. compared 

 in 1884. The average Value 



ferer ^ $88.48, and in }8H $84.54. 



TW ftafc totals of the dairy statistics f. 



yenrenoing June 1. 1804. are as follow: Total 



!! * ' 



all milk and cream sold from farms, 



**i ***** made on (arms. 48.05U78 

 ; cneeet made on farms, 206.660 pounds. 

 Timmb.Tofchk*et>sin the State W 1, 

 *7.M78; geese, 75,- 



" 



TV yi^ 



r.f Acres of clover mnwetl wan Oil.. 

 rmdow* other than clover. 1^" 



hay was 1^88,185 torn, and 



..f meadows other than cl<\-r ].; 

 Thr number of silos .him- 1. \^'.<\, u 

 rap 



f corn raised for silage in 1808 was ; 

 The number of births in the year rndin. 



inorease* : 



jit. ('lupared with tin- r.umbcr in it 

 endinir.lunr 1. i nuinlter of Mr 1 



each 1,000 inhaliitai 

 rhildrcn the numU-r of male t-hildi. 



The proportion of the native j^pulatj. 

 become oarents is about one fourth less, :. 

 I he fnreimi Imrn <ne ninth more, in tl,. 

 than in the country. 



The total Dumber .f illiterate person 



old and 



whom ?0,??'3 can neither read n<n 

 24,265 can read but can not \\r\\ >. I'.\ t i 



: L884 the total was 111 

 |K>rtion of native-horn illiterates i- 

 1.000, and of foreign born 84 in each 1.' 



The total male population aged 

 years and over (voting age 

 020, of \vhtn ::t.545 can not read <>r 



si.ite Insiitntioiig. A large ap|r..p : 

 was inali- this year for the new insane n 

 at Newberry. It is desired to erect H 

 buildings within the next two years. On the 



iiundation of the Board of < 

 ami Charities, the law under which pri\ir 

 .in- authori/ed to maintain ci-rtain i: 

 as State patients was so amended n 



n-p. < lion as to the treatment and - 

 such patients before bills for their maim 

 are allowed. 



The number of criminal insane at Ionia was 

 196 at the close of the biennial p.-ri-.d. and the 

 average population for the term 184. During 

 that time 102 were admitted, of whom 

 women. 



Since the opening of the State put-lie - 



in 1874, nearly :5.?00 children have be- 

 oeivecL There' are now about 200 at tin 

 and 1 350 boarded or placed in famili 

 under its supervision. 



The State Home for the Feeble-mind 

 Kpileptic. at Lapeer, was declared ready f 

 recci.tion of patients in An 



There were 570 inmates at the Im, 

 May. From July 1. 

 furniture factory at the institutior 

 profit of $17,600. 



I duration. An abstract of the < 



: nt of the I'niversity of Mie). 

 Legislature gives the following fi^u; 

 year ending June 80, 1H 

 $848,753.08, and the disburses 



he year ending June :.<. ls'.4. tin r 

 were $445,801 .01. and the distn, 

 7^I.n : which, after covering the d, 

 1803, left a balance of $-1 



In the Ii-. irtment UM> .Mi- 



; $28,015 in Pees thi- reai 



$22,788. In the n 

 Mirci'-al department 101 Miehi- 

 $6^40, and 183 nonresidents *v770. In tho 

 law department 21-") students ,f Michiira 1 



'.and 443 nonresidents paid s 

 the- pharmacy department :^5 Michi- 

 paid $1.205, and 42 nonr : -aid $2,295. 



In the homoeopathic school 10 Mi<higa 



