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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
