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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



492,017 acres in New Mexico, 466,738 acres in 

 Arkansas, 464,726 acres in Utah, 461,674 acres in 

 Nebraska, 460,976 acres in Idaho, 455,913 acres in 

 South Dakota, 452,166 acres in Kansas, 232,057 

 acres in Louisiana, 203,881 acres in Missouri, 203,- 

 380 acres in Alabama, 149,727 acres in Mississippi, 

 114,352 acres in Wisconsin, 64,645 acres in Louisi- 

 ana, 54,700 acres in Arizona, and 49,260 acres in 

 Nevada. 



Indians. The Indian population on reserva- 

 tions in 1900 was 270,544, compared with 243,524 

 in 1890. There were 86,265 in Indian Territory, 

 40,189 in Arizona, 19,212 in South Dakota, 13,<J2t> 

 in Oklahoma. 11,431 in California, 10,726 in Wis- 

 consin, 10,076 in Montana, 9,827 in Washington, 

 s.!i:.2 in Minnesota, 8,480 in New Mexico, 8,321 in 

 Nevada, S.-J7ti in North Dakota, 7,557 in Michigan, 

 5.334 in New York, 4,063 in Oregon, 3,854 in Ne- 

 braska, 2,115 in Utah, 1,642 in Wyoming, 1,436 in 

 Nc.rth Carolina, 1.211 in Kansas, and 995 in Colo- 

 rado, .">7.") in Florida, 385 in Iowa, and 290 in Texas. 

 The births among Indians were 4,196 in 1900, 

 against 4,863 in 1890; deaths, 3,698, against 5,218. 

 The total area of Indian reservations in 1900 was 

 121,665 square miles, compared with 162,991 

 square miles in 1890, the Indian Territory having 

 been reduced from 40,411 to 30,489 square miles, 

 the area of Oklahoma from 20,770 to 6,884 square 

 miles, that in South Dakota from 18,221 to 8,991 

 square miles, that in North Dakota from 9,158 to 

 5,784 square miles, that in New Mexico from 

 15,620 to 2,605 square miles, that in Montana from 

 16,549 to 14,845 square miles, that in Idaho from 

 3,552 to 2,132 square miles, the reservation of 1,710 

 square miles in Col6rado having been abolished, 

 the Minnesota reservation cut down from 3,523 to 

 2,447 square miles, the Oregon reservation from 

 3,242 to 2,031 square miles, and the one in Utah 

 from 6,207 to 3,186 and that in Washington from 

 6,321 to 3,646 square miles, and in Wyoming from 

 3,660 to 2,828 square miles, while in Arizona the 

 area has been increased from 10,317 to 23,673 

 square miles. 



Patents. The number of applications for pat- 

 ents during the year ending Dec. 31, 1900, was 

 41,980; caveats filed, 1,731; patents and reissues, 

 26,499; cash received, $1,350,828; cash expended, 

 $1,260,019; surplus, $90,808. The total number of 

 first patents issued from 1852 to 1901 was 664,827; 

 designs patented, 33,813; reissues of patents, 11,- 

 879; trade-marks registered, 35,678; labels regis- 

 tered, 8,009. From 1836 till 1852 the number of 

 patents was 9,957. During the calendar year 1900 

 the issues of patents were 24,660 in number; of 

 design patents, 1,758; reissues, 81; total, 26,499; 

 trade-marks registered, 1,721; labels and prints, 

 830; total certificates, 2,551. 



Commerce and Production. The production 

 of corn in the United States in the year ending 

 June 30, 1900, was 2,078,143,933 bushels, of which 

 213,123,412 bushels were exported, or 10.30 per 

 cent, of the crop, while 1,865,020,521 bushels and 

 2,480 bushels of imported corn, making a total of 

 1 .si;f,,023,001 bushels, were consumed in the United 

 States. The wheat crop for the calendar year 1899 

 was 547,303,846 bushels, of which 186,096,762 

 bushels, or 34 per cent., were exported and 361,- 

 207,084 bushels were retained for consumption, the 

 total domestic consumption, after adding 320,195 

 bushels of imports and deducting J!i7.:;.">!> bushels 

 of foreign exports, having been 361.229.920 bushels. 

 The area under corn in the calendar year 1900, 

 according to the reports of the Department of 

 Agriculture, was 83,320,872 acres, producing 2,105,- 

 102,516 bushels, having a farm value of $751,220,- 

 034, the value per bushel on Dec. 1 being 35.7 cents, 

 and the yield per acre having been 25.3 bushels, 



giving an average return of $9.02 per acre. The 

 area under wheat was 42,495,385 acres, yielding 

 522,229,505 bushels, an average of 12.3 bushels per 

 acre, making the crop worth at 62 cents a bushel, 

 the average price on Dec. 1, $323,525,177, an aver- 

 age of $7.61 per acre. The area under rye was 

 1,591,362 acres, producing 23,995,417 bushels, hav- 

 ing a value of $12,295,417 on the farm, or $7.73 

 per acre, the price on Dec. 1 having been 51.2 cents, 

 the yield 15.1 bushels per acre. The area sown 

 to oats was 2/,364,795 acres, producing 809,125,989 

 bushels, 29.6 bushels to the acre, worth 25.8 cents 

 a bushel, $7.63 per acre, and $208,669,233 for the 

 whole crop. The area under buckwheat was 637,- 

 930 acres, yielding 9,566,966 bushels, an average of 

 15 bushels, worth $5,341,413 at 55.8 cents a bush- 

 el, giving $8.37 an acre. The barley crop from 

 2,894,282 acres was 58,925,833 bushels, worth $24,- 

 075,271 at 40.8 cents a bushel, giving $8.32 an acre 

 for the average yield of 20.4 bushels. Of the total 

 wheat crop, 82,488,655 bushels were raised in Kan- 

 sas, 51,509,252 bushels in Minnesota, 33,325,897 

 bushels in Dakota, 28,543,628 bushels in California, 

 25,096,661 bushels in Washington, 24,801,900 bush- 

 els in Nebraska, 21,798,223 bushels in Iowa, 20,- 

 281,334 bushels in Pennsylvania, 18,816,7 13 bushels 

 in Missouri, 18,657,373 bushels in Oklahoma, 17,- 

 982,068 bushels in Illinois, 16,198,012 bushels in 

 Oregon, 15,187,848 bushels in Maryland, 13,166,599 

 bushels in Wisconsin, 12,442,846 bushels in Ken- 

 tucky, 9,421,932 bushels in Virginia, 9,271,764 

 bushels in Michigan, 8,523,876 bushels in Ohio, 

 6,496,166 bushels in New York, 6,411,702 bushels 

 in Indiana, 5,960,803 bushels in North Carolina, 

 4,452,895 bushels in West Virginia, 2,689,418 bush- 

 els in Arkansas, 1,929,963 bushels in Montana, 

 916,351 bushels in Alabama, and 25,724,492 bush- 

 els in other States and Territories. The hay crop 

 in 1900 was 50,110,906 tons, cut from 39,1*32,890 

 acres, an average crop of 1.28 ton an acre, worth 

 at the average price of $8.89 a ton on the farm the 

 total sum of $445,538,870. Iowa raised 5,006,470 

 tons of hay, Kansas 4,031,461 tons, New York 

 3,351,991 tons, Missouri 2,768,015 tons, California 

 2,708,171 tons, Pennsylvania 2,672,561 tons, Ne- 

 braska 2,639,489 tons, Illinois 2,119,419 tons, South 

 Dakota 2,064,196 tons, Colorado 1,783,133 tons, 

 Michigan 1,727,617 tons, Oregon 1,677,085 tons, 

 Indiana 1,663,452 tons, Ohio 1,652,797 tons, Min- 

 nesota 1,423,344 tons, Wisconsin 1,218,354 tons, 

 Vermont 1,066,524 tons, Washington 846.491 tons, 

 Maine 843,997 tons, Idaho 659,103 tons, and Mon- 

 tana, Virginia, Massachusetts, West Virginia, 

 Texas, New Hampshire, and Utah each more than 

 500,000 tons. The area of the potato crop was 

 2,611,054 acres, yielding 210,926,897 bushels, 80.8 

 bushels to the acre, worth $90,811,167, the average 

 price having been 43.1 cents a bushel; New York 

 raised 27,481,356 bushels, Indiana 16,630,941 bush- 

 els, Wisconsin 15,619,641 bushels, Illinois 15.-2!>(i.- 

 104 bushels, Missouri 14,004,576 bushels, Michigan 

 12,561,584 bushels, Pennsylvania 10,921,748 bush- 

 els, Missouri 10,106,961 bushels, and Nebraska. In- 

 diana, Iowa, Kansas, and Maine over G.OOO.ono 

 bushels each. The tobacco crop of the Tinted 

 States in 1896 was 403,004,320 pounds, grown on 

 594,749 acres, and its value was $24,258,070. Ala- 

 bama produced 1.005,313 bales of cotton on 2.- 

 049 acres in 1899, the value of the crop being 

 $:r>.S52,176; Arkansas on 1,726.350 acres raised 

 669,385 bales, worth $24,298,676; Florida, 41. *.",.-> 

 bales, worth $2,189.805, on 149,403 acres; Georgia, 

 1.345,699 bales on 3,287,741 acres, value $48,024,- 

 822; Louisiana. (i!!).476 bales, valued at $25,670,- 

 000, on 1,179. l.-)(i acres; Mississippi, 1,203,739 bales, 

 valued at $44,175,897, on 2,784,286 acres; North 

 Carolina, 503,825 bales, valued at $18,145,257, on 





