ILLINOIS 



2924 



ILLINOIS 



THE FACTORY 



Meat Packing 

 Foundry,Machineshop 

 Iron, Steel 

 Men's Clothing 

 Printing,Pub!ishing 

 Farm Implements 

 Whiskey, etc. 

 Flour, Grist 

 LuTTiber,TTrnber- 

 Bread, etc. 

 Railroad car Repairs 

 Beer, etc. 

 Furniture,RefTigeratoTs 

 Raihoadcars built 

 Electrical Goods 

 Sheet Metal 

 Tobacco 



Manufactured Gas 

 Paint, Varnish 

 Soap 



Coffee,Spices 

 Musical Instruments 

 Milk Products 

 Caniag3s,Wagons 

 Shoes 



Women's Clothing 

 Leather 



Patent Medicines 

 Confectionery 

 Stoves 



ILLINOIS PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Ba'sed on U.S. Government Reports 



Mil lions of Dol lars Annual ly 

 25 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 THE MINE 



Limestone 

 Petroleum 

 Coal 



THE FARM 

 Wool 



Berries,Currants 

 Coarse Forage 

 Broom Corn 

 Cream 

 Grass Seed 

 Sheep sold 

 Apples 

 Calves sold 

 Flowers,Plant_9 

 Potatoes 

 Mules sold 

 Garden Vegetables 

 Butter 



Hogs slaughtered 

 Poultry raised 

 Eggs 

 Milk 



Horses sold 

 Timothy, Clover 

 Cattle sold 

 Wheat 

 Hogs sold 

 Oais 

 Corn 



and Chicago make most of the agricultural 

 implements, and Chicago has a large propor- 

 tion of the packing-houses, foundries, and 

 clothing shops. Of more than 560,000 persons 

 who are employed in the manufacturing estab- 

 lishments, one and one-half per cent are chil- 

 dren under the age of sixteen, but over four- 

 teen. 



Agriculture. With remarkably fertile soil, 

 plenty of water and a surface flat and easily 

 tilled, Illinois is particularly well fitted for 

 agriculture, and no state in the Union sur- 

 passes it in the value of its farm property. 

 Over ninety per cent of its area is included 

 in farms, and of the farm land over eighty per 

 cent is improved. Illinois has been one of 

 the foremost states in the introduction of im- 



proved methods of tillage, especially in the 

 use of machinery, for which its level surface 

 well fits it. 



Frequently Illinois has ranked first among 

 the states in the total value of its crops, but 

 almost steadily for a half-century it has been 

 first in the production of corn. Over 10,300,000 

 acres are devoted to this crop, and over 200,- 

 000,000 bushels are produced every year. Oats, 

 the second crop of the state in acreage and in 

 value, are produced in greater quantity only 

 in Iowa; Illinois is no longer, as it was for 

 over a quarter of a century, the largest pro- 

 ducer of wheat, the great Western states having 

 left it far behind. Despite this fact, the an- 

 nual wheat crop is valued at about $50,000,000. 

 Hay, potatoes, barley and rye, in that order, 



