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Show MISSOURI ADDING TO WEALTH. Ranks High as Manufacturing as Well at Agricultural State. For many years Missouri ranked next lo Illinois nnd Iowa for corn acre-ago; acre-ago; It took high rank us a fruit and wine producing state and wns fourth on the Hat or American stntcs In wine. Missouri corn, Missouri apples nnd Missouri grnpes woro admittedly excellent ex-cellent products. Within flvo years, however, tho manufactures of Missouri Mis-souri bavo increased 30 per cent. In plnco of corngrowlng, but not to the neglect of thnt Industry. Missouri has taken up meatpacking, to tho amount of $00,000,000 last year. Tobacco yielded $30,000,000 and malt liquors $25,000,000. The trado In boots nnd shoes In which St. Louis Is n formidable formid-able rival of Boston, was $25,000,000 and In foundry nnd machine shop products, mado profitable through tho recent development of Missouri's Iron, lend und zinc mines, $20,000,000. Instead In-stead of being n distinctively agricultural agri-cultural stato Missouri baa become one of tho chief manufacturing states of tho country. Now York Sun. |