550

UNITED STATES: — TEXAS

Founded

Institutions

Control

Professors

Students

1885

St. Edward's Coll., Austin

R.C.

15

115

1883

Univ. of Texas, Austin

State

170

1,939

1890

Howard Payne Coll

Bapt.

1(1

353

1876

Agr. and Meeh. Coll

State

60

1,082

1881

Fort Worth Univ

M.E.

83

809

1891

Polytechnic Coll

M.E. So.

25

441

1873

S.W. Univ

M.E. So.

51

son

1873

Texas Criristian Univ

Chr.

22

370

1845

Baylor Univ., Waco . . . . .

Bapt.

77

079

1SG9

Trinity Univ., Waxahachie

Presb.

11

227

1003

College of Industrial Arts

State

23

271

The Prairie View State College (Normal and Industrial) for coloured youths had 36 professors and 1,112 students in 1910-11.

Charity. — A]>art from almshouses and establishments for the insane there are within the State 76 benevolent institutions, 14 of whicii are public, the rest being provided by private charity, and by religious bodies. They comprise 31 hospitals (one federal, six municipal), a dispensary, 17 orphan- ages, 24 liomes for adults and children, and three State schools for the deaf or blind. The County Commissioners provide for the poor resident in their counties, and have the management of the almshouses.

Finance, Defence. — The receipts and disbursements of the General Fund in the year ending August 31, 1912, were: —

Dollars

Balance, Aug. 31, 1911 413,12-1

Receipts, 1911-12 9,619,697

Total . Disbursements, 1911-12

Balance, Aug. 31, 1912

10,032,821 9,602,388

430,433

The bonded debt in 1912 amounted to 3,977,500 dollars. The bonds are held mostly by State educational and charitable funds. In 1910 the assessed value of taxable j)roperty was 2,388,500,124 dollars.

The Organised Militia or Texas National Guard consists of four troops of cavalry, a battery of field artillery, and three regiments of infantry, having a total strength in 1910 of 216 officers and 2,513 enlisted men.

Production and Industry.— Texas is one of the most important agricultural States of the Union. In 1910 it had 417,770 farms with an area of 112,435,067 acres of farmland, of Avhich 27,360,666 acres was improved land. In the arid region of Texas and New Mexico an area of 160,000 acres is to be reclaimed under the Federal Reclamation Act. The chief crops in 1912 were (in bushels) maize, 153,300,000; wheat, 11,025,000; oats, 31,140,000; rice 9,429,000; potatoes, 3,276,000. The yield of cotton in 1910 covered 10,060,000 acres, and yielded 3,072,932 bales. In 1911, the yield was 4,256,427 bales and the estimated yield for 1912, 4,850,000 bales. Other products are tobacco (140,000 pounds in 1912), cane-sugar (10,000 pounds in 1909-10), sorghum, vegetables, and fruits (especially peaches). The State has a very great live-stock industry; in

19l0.it contained 1,-369,000 horses, 702,000 mules, 1,137,000 milk cows,