In Table IV is shown the classified weekly earnings for the week during which the largest number of persons was employed during the year by sex and age.

Table V shows earnings per week by both day and piece work system, normal time worked, and changes in wages in per cent during the year by occupations.

The trades and labor organization investigation is incorporated in one general table and covers the following subjects: affiliation, membership, per cent of trade organized, hours of daily labor, minimum wage, average number of days employed during the year, benevolent features, strikes and arbitration and accidents.

The report of the Free Employment departments of the State for the year 1904 follows and shows very gratifying results.

The remaining pages of the report are devoted to the results of an investigation of the cost of living and retail prices in this State, by the United States Department of Labor, covering the period of years from 1900 to 1903, inclusive.

In conclusion, the Commissioner desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to R. C. Horne, chief clerk; A. C. Talley, statistician; John S. White, A. B. Jamison and Wm. Dorsel, superintendents of Free Employment departments, and Ella Shipp, Josie Buser and Meda Rozelle, clerks, for efficient and faithful services rendered.

SHIPMENTS FROM MISSOURI COUNTIES DURING 1903

Missouri, queen of states, again makes exhibit of her surplus products shipped out during the year 1903. This represents only what was marketed and not what was produced. The showing increases by leaps and bounds each year and her possibilities are beyond approximate estimation. In 1902 her surplus productions, not including manufactured articles, brought the producers the sum of $152,186,911, while those of 1903 sold for $179,146,472, an increase of $26,959,561. In the tables following are shown what each county shipped out during the year 1903 and the total amount of money paid to the producers.

Of the enormous total for her surplus productions of $179,146,472, Missouri obtains 40 per cent from her live stock, 7 per cent from mill products, 12 per cent from farm crops, 10 per cent from timber, 16 per cent from minerals, 2 per cent from fruits and vegetables and over 12 per cent from her miscellaneous products.

The cereals raised for food in Missouri, of which any considerable quantity has been shipped out of the state during 1903, are in the order of their importance (value of crops), wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley and buckwheat. Some kaffir corn is also grown but not extensively, as but little was shipped during the year. With the single exception of rice, every cereal grown in the United States is grown in Missouri. The live stock shipped consisted of cattle, hogs, horses and mules, sheep, poultry (live and dressed), goats and jacks. The minerals were coal, lead ore, sublimated lead, lead concentrates, lead-bearing rock, barytes, mineral sludge, zinc ore, zinc oxide, iron ore, tiff, tripoli, copper ore, silicates, fire clay, stoneware, lime, granite and stone, gravel, sand, coke, cement, potters' clay and chats.

The fruits and vegetables listed were apples, peaches, potatoes, sweet potatoes, melons, cantaloupes, grapes, plums, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, fresh fruit, dried fruit, onions, vegetables, tomatoes and pickles.

The lumber was made up of the shipments of hardwood lumber, pine lumber, walnut logs, logs, piling, railroad ties, posts, cooperage, cordwood, paper wood, walnut lumber and shingles.

Missouri has a total land area of 68,735 square miles or 43,990,400 acres, of which 33,997,873 acres or 77.3 per cent are included in farms. Missouri is the fifth state in population, ranks third in the number of farms, with a total of 238,043, and fourth in farms owned free and unencumbered.

The twelfth United States census gives the State sixth rank in gross value of agricultural products.

Missouri ranks sixth in the number of persons engaged in agriculture; ranks second in the yield per acre of cotton; has more apple trees than any state in the United States, and will undoubtedly lead in apple production when the trees recently planted begin bearing.

Missouri ranks third as a gooseberry producer and ranks fourth in the production of blackberries.

Missouri ranks fifth as a live stock raising State, is second in the production of mules (the state of Texas outranking her), is fourth as a horse raising State and third in swine raising.

Missouri is third in the value of her poultry, is fourth in egg production, is second in turkey and geese raising and third in the raising of ducks; is third as a honey producer, and is second in the production of beeswax.

MISSOURI COUNTIES WHICH EXCELLED IN
SHIPMENTS OF CERTAIN SURPLUS

PRODUCTS IN 1903.

Nodaway led in the shipment of cattle, sending out 59,324 head; and in hogs, shipping 124,288 head.

Saline led in horses and mules, shipping 3,701 head; and in corn, shipping 1,422,455 bushels.

Boone, in sheep, shipping 22,820 head.

Henry, in dressed poultry, 2,759,263 pounds; in bran, 5,540,000 pounds; in broom-corn, 1,780,000 pounds; in tile and sewer pipe, 1,572 cars; in stoneware, 105 cars, and in potter's clay, 136 cars.

Daviess, in live poultry, 1,645,982 pounds.

Scott, in corn meal, 14,595,295 pounds; in melons, 2,234,715, and melon seed, 5,850 pounds.

head.

Lafayette, wheat, 636,798 bushels.

Audrain, oats, 203,546 bushels.

Livingston, in rye, 6,375 bushels, and in barley, 43,750 bushels.
Cass, in flaxseed, 13,380 bushels, and in cut flowers, 200,000 pounds.
Barton, in hay, 48,300,000 pounds or 24,150 tons, and in goats, 260

Knox, in timothy seed, 1,416,000 pounds.

Caldwell, clover seed, 150,000 pounds.

Harrison, millet seed, 1,290,000 pounds.

Linn, cane seed, 168,000 pounds.

Dunklin, in cotton, 25,570,029 pounds; in cotton seed, 4,220,000 pounds; in seed cotton, 7,687,000 pounds; shingles, 8,000,000; in cotton seed meal, 7,408,000 pounds, and in cotton seed oil, 366,727 gallons.

feet.

Chariton, tobacco, 366,510 pounds, and in pecans, 57,568 pounds.
Gentry, in blue grass seed, 312,000 pounds.

Vernon, castor beans, 1,599 bushels, and in nuts, 72,495 pounds.
Grundy, buckwheat, 70,000 pounds.

Pemiscot, hardwood lumber, 46,282,400 feet; walnut logs, 350,000

Carter, pine lumber, 36,905,000 feet.