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product, as above shown, makes South Carolina at this time the largest 

 producer, except, perhaps, the State of Maryland alone. In 1870 there 

 were but two fertilizer factories in Carolina, and the value of their pro- 

 ducts was less than one-fifth that of the present product, which is greater 

 than the product of the entire United States in 1860, by 148 per cent. 



FLOURING AND GEIST MILL PRODUCTS, 



while greater in value than those of any other single manufacturing in- 

 dustry in the United States, form only about nine per cent, of the aggre- 

 gate products of manufactures. In South Carolina they amount to 

 twenty -two per cent, of the products of all manufactures. The figures of 

 the U. S. Census relating to this industry in the United States, and in 

 South Carolina, from 1860 to 1870, are given in the following table: 



Table of Flouring and Grist Mill Products. 



*Here and elsewhere the currency values of 1870 are reduced to gold. 



The rate of increase and decrease in this industry during the period: 

 under consideration will be most readily seen by consulting the. following 

 table, deduced from the above. 



