gannett] GAZETTEER OF MARYLAND. 9 
The following- table shows the leading farm products: 
Dairy products of Maryland in 1900. 
Dairy products $5, 228, 698 
Poultry products $1, 158, 020 
Fruit $2, 490, 385 
Corn bushels. . 19, 760, 510 
Wheat do 9, 671, 800 
Oats do 1 , 109, 560 
Potatoes do 1, 991, 357 
Sweet potatoes do. . . . 677, 848 
Hay tons. . 507, 042 
Tobacco pounds. . 24, 589, 480 
In the production of tobacco. Maryland is the eighth State in the 
Union. 
Manufactures are of great importance, Maryland being the four- 
teenth State in the Union, while in agriculture it is only the twenty- 
ninth. The following table summarizes its manufactures, of which 
two-thirds are carried on in the city of Baltimore: 
Statistics of manufactures of Maryland for 1900. 
Establishments 9, 879 
Employees 108, 325 
Horsepower 141, 879 
Capital $163, 147, 260 
Wages . $38, 748, 551 
Materials $144, 397, 680 
Products $242, 552, 990 
The railway mileage in the State in 1902 was 1,383 miles, most of 
which was in the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania sj^stems. 
There is one canal, the Chesapeake and Ohio, which follows Potomac 
River from Cumberland to Washington, D. C, and is principally used 
for the transportation of coal from the Cumberland district. 
The principal and almost sole mineral product of the State is coal, 
which is mined in large quantities in the neighborhood of Cumberland. 
It is a bituminous coal of excellent quality. In 1901 the amount mined 
was 5,113,127 tons. 
