Show MISSCURI ADDING TO WEALTH Ranks High as Manufacturing as Well as Agricultural State For man yeais Missouri ranked next to Illinois and Iowa Jor corn avenge ave-nge It took high rank Vis n fruit and wine producing state and was fourth on the list of American states In wine Missouri corn MIssouri apples und Missouri grapes were admittedly excellent ex-cellent products Within five years however the manufactures of Missouri Mis-souri have Increased 30 per cent In place of corngrowlng but not to the neglect of that Industry Missouri has taken up meatpacking to the amount of 00000000 last year Tobacco yielded 30000000 and malt liquors 25000000 The trade In boots and shoes In which St Louis Is a formidable formid-able rival of Boston was 25000000 mill In foundry und machine shop products made profitable through the recent development of Missouris Iron lead and zinc mines 20000000 Instead In-stead of being a distinctively agricultural agri-cultural state Missouri has become one of tho chief manufacturing states of the country New York Sun |