NEBRASKA 



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NEBRASKA 



THE FACTORY 



Meat Racking 



Flour, Grist 



Printing.Publishing 



Butter 



Railroad Shop Work 



Bread, etc. 



Fbundry,Machine Shop 



Lumberjimber 



Leather Goods 



Men's Clothing 



Manufactured Gas 



Paint .Varnish 



Artificial Stone 



Confectionery 



Condensed Mi IK etc. 



Tobacco 



Dai ry Suppl ies , etc. 



Marble, Stone 



Clay Products 



Patent Medicines 



Carriages,Wagons 



Sheet Metal 



Railroad Cars Built 



Coffee 



Soap 



Bags 



NEBRASKA PRODUCTS CHART 



Figures Based on U.S. Government Reports 



Millions of Dollars Annually 

 20 40 60 80 



THE FARM 



Milk 



Calves sold 



Cattle slaughtered 



Barley 



Cream 



GardenVegetables 



Sheep sold 



Apples 



Mules sold 



Rye 



Butter Fat 



Hogs slaughtered 



Timothy,Clover 



Potatoes 



Spring Wheat 



Butter 



Poultry raised 



Eggs 



Horses sold 



Alfalfa 



Wild Hay 



Oats 



Hogs sold 



Cattle sold 



Winter Wheat 



Corn 



active in the forestation of its waste lands and 

 prairies, and has so won its popular name of 

 Tree-Planter State. Arbor Day (which see), 

 now observed generally throughout the country, 

 originated in Nebraska in 1872. All of the well- 

 known trees of the north latitude are grown in 

 the eastern part of the state;, the bull pine 

 grows in the highlands of the northwest; pines, 

 cottonwoods and willows are being propagated 

 in the sand hills, and red cedars border the 

 streams. 



Minerals. Nebraska is of little importance 

 as a mineral state. A superior quality of clay 

 of all colors for brick; a soft building stone; 

 chalk rock used in the manufacture of hydraulic 

 cement; pumice, sand, gravel, ocher, peat, lig- 

 nite and mineral waters are produced. Metals 

 are found, but in such small quantities as to be 

 of no economic value. 



Manufactures. Agriculture is not only the 

 chief industry, but it is the basis of the state's 

 manufactures and commerce. Being in the 



center of the cattle-raising and corn districts, 

 slaughtering and meat packing, the chief indus- 

 try of the United States, is by far the most im- 

 portant industry of the state. South Omaha, 

 as a packing center, is outranked only by Chi- 

 cago, and by the twin cities in Missouri and 

 Kansas, each known as Kansas City. Nebraska 

 wheat makes an excellent flour, and flour mill 

 and gristmill products are second in impor- 

 tance. Printing and publishing, the making of 

 malt liquors, car repairing and shop construc- 

 tion by the steam railroads, the production of 

 foundry and machine-shop products, the manu- 

 facture of beet sugar, lumber and timber prod- 

 ucts and leather goods, vegetables, canning and 

 dairying are also important. The creamery at 

 Lincoln is one of the largest in the United 

 States. Omaha, Lincoln, South Omaha and 

 Grand Island are the largest manufacturing 

 centers of the state. In 1910 Nebraska ranked 

 twenty-fifth among the states in the value of its 

 manufactures. 



