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UNITED STATES

Of the food products manufactured in 1904 and in 1909, the more important (with the value of output) were : —

Industries

Output value

1909

1904

Beet sugar, &c

Butter, cheese and condensed milk Canning and preserving fruit,

vegetables, fish, and oysters Flour and grist milling Rice cleaning and polishing Slaughtering and meat-packing .

Dollars

48,122,383 274,557,718

157,121,201

883,584,405

22,371,457

1,370,568,101

Dollars

24,393,794

168,182,789

130,465,976

713,033,395

16,296,916

922,037,528

In the combined textile industries for the three census years, the number of producing spindles at work was : —

Year

Cotton

Silk

Woollen

Worsted

Total

1909 1904 1899

28,178,862 23,672,064 19,463,984

2,405,527 2,018,706 1,655,903

2,148,216 2,456,077 2,225.893

1,752,806

1,199,209

994,899

34,485,411 29,346,116 24,340,670

The number of power-looms at work for each of the years was : —

Carpets and rugs

Cottons

Silk goods

Woollens

Worsted goods

Total

1909 1904 1899

11,796

11,002

9,841

665,652 559,781 455,752

75,406 59,775 44,257

33,148 38,104 36,714

39,476 28,123 26,630

825,478 696,785 573,194

The value of the outmit of certain textile industries was

Nature of products

1909

Dollars 71,188,152 628,391,813 200,143,527 196,911,667 419,743,521

1904

Carpets and rugs ....

Cotton goods .....

Hosiery and knit goods

Silk goods ......

Woollen and worsted goods

Dollars 61,586,433 450,467,704 137,076,454 133,288,072 307.941,710

In 1909 there were 388 blast furnaces at work with a daily capacity of

101,267 tons ; in 1904, 343 with a daily capacity of 78,180 tons. In 1909