The following is a statement of miscellaneous items of piled from the tabulated reports of the 368 associations:

Foreclosures for the year....

Shares issued during the year

Shares in force at the close of the year

Shares pledged or borrowed on

Borrowing members.....

Nonborrowing members.

Female members..

Shares held by female members....

Loans now secured by mortgages in the State

Total expenses. ---

3,081, 874.50

$946, 778. 64

2, 135, 095.86 3,081, 874. 50

DECENNIAL CENSUS OF KANSAS FOR 1895.

Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for the month ending December 31, 1895. Part I.-State decennial census, 1895. Part II.— Farm, crop, and live-stock statistics. F.D. Coburn, Secretary. 136 pp.

In Part I, which embraces statistics of population for 1895, the returns are presented by counties and minor civil divisions. The aggregate population by counties for prior census years is also shown. The following statement gives the totals for the State for 1885 and 1895:

Part II relates to farm, crop, and live-stock statistics.

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RECENT FOREIGN STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS.

General Report on the Wages of the Manual Labor Classes in the United Kingdom, with Tables of the Average Rates of Wages and Hours of Labor of Persons Employed in Several of the Principal Trades in 1886 and 1891. 1893. xlviii, 481 pp. (Published by the Labor Department of the Board of Trade.)

This report is the final one of a series on this subject prepared by the labor department of the British Board of Trade, which are based on a census of wages taken in conformity with a resolution of the House of Commons of March 2, 1886. The data were obtained by means of schedules sent by mail to employers calling for a statement as to "the weekly rates of wages actually earned in a particular week in October, 1886, by the numbers actually at work in that week, divided according to the varied classification of their occupations, and distinguishing in all cases the wages paid to men, to lads and boys, to women, and to girls, respectively; " half-timers were also designated, and a distinction made between wages earned by "piece" and wages earned by "time" work. The "numbers and rates of wages for each occupation" were also required. A distinct set of questions called for the total wages paid during 1885, with particulars as to the maximum amount paid as wages in one week with the number employed for that week; also the minimum amount paid as wages in one week with the number employed for that week.

From these reports the actual earnings for 1886 were estimated by multiplying the wages for a given week by 52 and making any deductions that might seem expedient, the totals being verified by the totals reported for 1885. The results obtained from the two processes are summarized in the following statement, which shows the general aver age annual earnings of men, women, and children:

AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGES IN VARIOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT METHODS, COMPARED.

AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGES IN VARIOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT METHODS, COMPARED-Concluded.

There is a rough correspondence between the high annual average rates for a normal year of fifty-two weeks and the high percentage of men employed. This comparison, however, is not likely to hold in dissimilar trades in which the rates of wages of men are very different. In the following statement, which shows the average weekly wages. for, and the percentage of, men, lads and boys, women, and girls, respectively, the industries are arranged according to the annual wages for a normal year of fifty-two weeks:

AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES AND PERCENTAGE OF MEN, LADS AND BOYS, WOMEN, AND GIRLS IN VARIOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.

The percentage of men employed at stated weekly wages in different industries is shown in the following statement:

PERCENTAGE OF MEN EMPLOYED IN VARIOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, BY STATED WEEKLY WAGES.

Comparing different districts it is found that higher rates of wages prevail in Great Britain than in Ireland, and higher in England than in Scotland. The following statement is a comparison between the average annual wages in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the United Kingdom in certain industries for which the necessary particulars were secured:

AVERAGE ANNUAL WAGES IN VARIOUS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, COMPARED. [The averages in this table were obtained by multiplying the average for a week in 1886 by 52.]

a Most of the returns used came from Dublin, Belfast, and other large towns. Particulars of rates of wages, etc., are also given for indoor workers in the tailoring, dressmaking, millinery, mantle making, and linen-underclothing industries. The total amount of wages returned for the year 1885, and the numbers employed, included in many cases persons working at their own homes and only partially employed by the firms who made the returns. The details for 1885 were further complicated in the