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     Axtell, Bethphage Inner Mission Association of Nebraska, for epileptics, feeble-minded and otherwise destitute. 150 cared for during year. Rev. C. A. Lonnquist, Superintendent
     Blair, Crowell Memorial Home, home for aged Methodists of Nebraska.
74 cared for during year. Rev. W. C. George, Superintendent.
     Hastings, Sunnyside home for aged. Average of 27 cared for during year. May Horst, Matron.
     Kearney, Mother Hull home for aged.
     Lincoln, Tabitha Home, home for aged, epileptics, invalids and orphans. Total of 146 cared for during year. Rev. Ernst Walter, Superintendent.
     Minden, Bethany Old People's Home. 40 cared for during year. Rev. A. Hofgaard, Superintendent.
     Omaha, Negro Woman's Christian Association Home, 933 N. 25th Street. Home for aged negroes. 11 cared for during the year. Mrs. Lyda Wilson, Matron.
     Immanuel Deaconess Institute, home for aged, invalids, orphans, and hospital patients. 3,512 cared for during year. Thirty-fourth and Meredith Streets. Rev. Emil G. Chinlund, Superintendent.
     Jewish Old People's Home.
     Florence Home for the Aged, 7915 North 30th Street. .70 cared for during year, 69 now in institution. S. F. Lucas, Superintendent.
     Old People's Home, 1325 Fontenelle Boulevard. Sixty-two cared for during year. Mrs. Cynthia Esplin, Superintendent.
     Plattsmouth, Nebraska Masonic Home, home for aged and invalid Nebraska Masons and dependents. 94 cared for during year. Wm. F. Evers, Superintendent
     Sutton, Old Folks' Home. Home for epileptics, cripples and aged. Twenty-two cared for during year. Rev. T. H. Clarke, Superintendent
      West Point, St. Joseph's Home and Hospital. 106 aged and 268 hospital patients cared for during year. Rt. Rev. Joseph Ruesing, Superintendent.
     York, I. O. O. F. Home. 81 aged and 87 orphans cared for during year. John W. Pittman, Superintendent.

     Holdrege, Christian Orphanage. 110 cared for during year, 90 now in institution. Rev. H. A. Gustin, Superintendent.
     Lincoln, St Thomas' Orphanage, 139 cared for during year, 106 now in institute. Sr. M. Alexandrina, Superintendent.
     Tabitha Home. Home for orphans. Total of 81 children cared for during year, 58 now in institution. Rev. E. Walter, Superintendent.
     Omaha, Child Saving Institute, 619 So. 42d Street. 187 cared for during year, 73 now in institution. Mrs. A. A. McGraw, Superintendent.

     The Creche, 1303 Park Avenue. Total of 510 cared for during year. 84 in institution January 1, 1930. Mary M. Royce, Superintendent. Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Home for homeless boys of all creeds and colors, 316 cared for during year, 166 now in institution. Rev. E. J. Flanagan, Superintendent.
     Hattie B. Munroe Home, 2824 No. 66th Street. Convalescent home for dependent crippled children. Marie Petersen, Superintendent.
     House of the Good Shepherd, for dependent and delinquent girls. 94 cared for during 1929. Mother M. Raphael, Superintendent.
     Immanuel Deaconess Institute, 24th and Meredith Streets. Children's home. 52 cared for during 1929. Rev. Emil G. Chinlund, Superintendent.
     Masonic Home for Children, 2137 So. 33d Street. Home for boys. 104 cared for during 1929. James A. Noble, Superintendent.
     National Christian Welfare Union, Minerva Cottage. 26 cared for during year 1929. Mrs. C. E. Bowen, Superintendent.
     Nebraska Children's Home Society. Home finding and child placing agency, 135 cared for during year, 44 now in institution. W. Hugh Fletcher, Superintendent.
     St. James Orphanage. 260 cared for during 1929. Rev. John S. Palubicki, Superintendent.
     Salvation Army Home and Hospital, 1702 Grace Street. 124 cared for during year, 24 now in institution. Virginia Schultz, Superintendent.
     Sterling, Martin Luther Home for Feeble-Minded. 54 children cared for during 1929. Rev. J. H. Moehl, Superintendent
     Winnebago, Mission of Reform Church of America for Indian Children. 78 cared for during 1929. Rev. G. A. Watermulder, Superintendent. St. Augustine Indian School. 65 attended school during year. Sr. M. Pauline, Superintendent.
     York, Mothers' Jewels' Home, Home for homeless children. Filled to capacity throughout the year, 113 now in institution. John Calvert, Superintendent.
     Odd Fellows Home, Home for dependent children. 40 in institution on January 1, 1930. John W. Pittman, Superintendent.

     The population of Nebraska in 1930 was 1,377,963, being an increase of 6.3 per cent over the census of 1920.      The city population, including the inhabitants of thirty-five cities and villages of 2,500 population or more, constitutes 35.5 per cent of the whole. Nineteen and four-tenths per cent of the people live in villages of less than 2,500 inhabitants, and the remaining 45.1 per cent live in the country.
     The farm acreage of Nebraska in 1930 was approximately 48,214,420 acres, or 90.8 per cent of the total area of the state. In 1929, 50 per cent of all lands in farms was operated by owners, and 49 per cent in farms operated by tenants.
     The bonded local debt of the counties, cities and villages, school districts, and drainage districts has been incurred chiefly by municipalities and school districts. On July 1, 1930, the state auditor reported a total of $109,884,868 of bonded debt of the political subdivisions of the state as follows: County, $6,146,164; precinct and township, $540,000; irrigation and drainage districts, $3,795,701; city and village, $63,681,680; school districts, $35,721,323. The state has no bonded debt

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     * Statistics for these topics are taken from the United States census reports, the latest figures being those of 1910. from state auditor's reports, and from reports of state department of agriculture.

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