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berries, and $5,227,194 on account of garden vegetables. 

 The aggregate amount is $55,61)4,031. Of the educational 

 efforts made here by tlie Agricultural College, by institutes 

 and associations, granges, exhibitions, addresses and reports, 

 it is hardly necessary to speak, so well and universally are 

 they known. The farming economy of this State, in which 

 $216,230,550 are invested in lands, buildings, implements, 

 animals, orchards and forests, is interesting to every student 

 of affairs. And all the methods here are so entirely different 

 from the methods of Great Britain, that a statement of the 

 one leads naturally to a statement of the other, with the 

 expectation that something may be learned for the benefit of 

 both. 



A word in conclusion, with regard to the industrial capacity 

 of our country, of which I gave a general view to the Board 

 last year. The vast area of our land is sufficient to fill our 

 minds with astonishment. Of timber lands we have in the" 

 entire country 85,000,000 acres; of coal lands, 5,529,970 

 acres ; of mineral lands, 800,000 acres ; of arable lands in the 

 Western States alone 17,800,000 acres, and in the Southern 

 States 25,585,641 acres ; of irrigable lands, 30,000,000 acres ; 

 of grazing desert, 502,462,827 acres. It is estimated that the 

 entire grazing area is nearly a thousand million acres. AVith 

 the management of this great area, and with the home con- 

 sumption of its products, we are all familiar. But we con- 

 template with great satisfaction the relation they hold to the 

 commerce and finance of the country. The exportation of 

 articles of food is only about five per cent of the amount 

 produced. In 1883 the exports of food products were 

 $362,000,000 sea-port values, about $242,000,000 farm or 

 local values; and this amount out of about $3,000,000,000 

 produced. When we add to this, that, out of a total of nearly 

 $6,000,000,000 (according to J. R. Dodge, statistician of 

 the United States department of agriculture) of manufactures 

 produced, we export but one dollar for every fifty taken by 

 our home market, the conclusion is manifest. The United 

 States, as producer and consumer, has not yet been 

 equalled. 



