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MILES OF RAILROADS IN OPERATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

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From the late report of the State Dairy Commission of Iowa the following compilation is made:

Number of creameries in the State November 1..

Number of cheese factories in the State November 1

Total pounds of butter (71,563,013) shipped out of the State during the

year, less 16 per cent, tare

Home consumption, estimated at 50 pounds per capita..

Total production, pounds.....

Total value at 12 cents per pound

775

109

60,112,931

100,000,000

160,112,931

.$ 32,022,386

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Old Capitol Building at Iowa City, now used by the State University. See page 61.

1840-1857.

Pork.

The following table, compiled from the leading trade journal of that line, shows the number of hogs packed in Iowa during the two packing seasons:

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District townships....

School Statistics.

The following table is compiled from the advance sheets of the

biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction :

Independent districts..

1,193

3,532

Number of sub-districts.

8,985

Number of ungraded schools..

12,322

Number of rooms in graded schools

4,123

Average duration of schools in months

7.9

Number of male teachers employed

4,978

Number of female teachers employed...........

22,275

Average monthly compensation of male teachers.
Average monthly compensation of female teachers..

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Male pupils between ages of five and twenty-one...

Female pupils between ages of five and twenty-one..
Number enrolled in public schools..
Total average attendance

Average tuition per month per pupil..

Number of school houses..

Value of school houses.

Value of apparatus

Number of volumes in libraries......

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