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UNITED STATES
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.<
- —
-
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
