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Of the food products manufactured in 1909 and 1914, the more im- portant (with the value of output) were : —

Output value

1914

1909

Dollars

Dollars

Beet sugar, &c

62,605,210

48,122,383

Butter, cheese and condensed milk

364,285,150

274,557,718

Canning and preserving fruit,

vegetables, fish, and oysters

243,439,859

157,101,201

Flour and grist milling

877,679,709

883,584,405

Rice cleaning and polishing

23,039,294

22,371,457

Slaughtering and meat-packing in-

cluding sausage

1,673,978,930

1,370,568,101

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

Tear

Cotton

Bilk

Woollw

Worsted

Total

1914 1909

31,703,863 28,178,862

2,100,012 1,777,962

2,079,626 2,156,824

2,227,739 1,752,806

38,111,240 33,866,054

The number of power-looms at work for each of the years wa.<



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Carpets and rugs

Cottons

Silk goods

OT/^iion. 1 Worsted Woollens ; goodg

Total

1914 1909

9,821

11,796

077,920 665,652

85,068

75,406

28,866 46,581 33,148 80,476

848,24li 825,478

The value of the output of certain textile industries was :

—

Nature of products

1914

1909

Carpets and rugs ....

Cotton goods. . ..

Hosiery and knit goods

Silk goods ......

Woollen and worsted goods

Dollars 69,128,185 701,300,988 258,912,903 254,011,257 379,484,379

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

In 1914 there were 363 blast furnaces in active plants with a daily capacity of 109,426 tons; in 1909, 388, with a daily capacity of 101,447 tons. In 1914 the output of pig-iron was 23,269,731 tons, value 312,761,617 dollars; in 1909 it was 25,651,798 tons, value 387,830,443 dollars. Bessemer, or modified Bessemer steel plants in 1914 had 115 converters; in 1909, 112; total daily capacity of ingots or direct castings, double turn, in 1914, 53,106 tona ; in 1909, 49,005 tons. Open- hearth steel plants in 1914 had 864 basic and acid furnaces ; in 1909, 706 ; in 1904, 489 ; daily capacity of steel, in 1914, 93,650 tons ; in 1909, 62,161