===================+=========================+======================== | The Union-- | The West-- +------------+------------+------------+----------- | 1900. | 1850. | 1900. | 1850. +------------+------------+------------+----------- Dairy cows | 17,139,674 | 6,385,094 | 7,011,333 | 722,221 Other meat cattle | 50,682,662 | 11,393,813 | 35,585,356 | 1,756,059 Mules and asses | 3,366,724 | 559,331 | 1,655,654 | 122,371 Horses | 18,280,007 | 4,336,719 | 10,063,260 | 528,459 Sheep | 39,937,573 | 21,723,220 | 26,940,389 | 1,628,159 Lambs | 21,668,238 | ---- | 13,632,117 | ---- Swine | 62,876,108 | 30,354,213 | 32,274,381 | 4,193,895 +------------+------------+------------+----------- Total |213,950,986 | 74,752,390 |127,162,490 | 8,951,164 Per cent | | | 59.4 | 11.9 -------------------+------------+------------+------------+----------- MANUFACTURING. The center of area in the United States, excluding Alaska and recent acquisitions, is in northern Kansas, the center of population in Indiana, and the center of manufactures in Ohio. The center of area will always be in the West and the centers of population and manufactures are slowly moving that way. Manufacturing is of minor importance, though the aggregate of output exceeded the agricultural output in 1900 by over $50,000,000. Relatively its position is not so strong, being but 16.1 per cent of the total, against 27.5 per cent for population and 43.2 per cent for value of farm products. Manufacturing increased substantially in the 1890 and 1900 decade and materially in the past fifty years. Thus, ======================+================+=================+============= | 1900. | 1890. | 1860. ----------------------+----------------+-----------------+------------- Value of products |$ 2,104,940,868 | $ 1,367,835,887 | $ 40,398,488 Number of operatives | 652,561 | 508,371 | 30,084 Dollars per operative | 2,991 | 2,690 | 1,342 Per cent of total: | | | Product | 16.1 | 14.5 | 3.9 Operatives | 12.2 | 11.9 | 3.1 ----------------------+----------------+-----------------+-------------