108 RURAL CALIFORNIA 



turing in accordance with the advance in population 

 and trade which is being realized. At present, how- 

 ever, her open door in manufacturing attainment is 

 in the increase of distinctively rural industries. 



The totals of values produced by manufacturing in 

 California, according to the United States Census, 

 for the years indicated, are as follows : 



1919 

 Value of products ........... $712,800,764 $1,981,204,781 



Value, less cost of raw materials 265,326,233 762,346,183 



Selecting from the schedules of 1914 manufactures 

 of distinctively rural character, the rural contribu- 

 tion to the development of California manufacturing 

 becomes apparent, viz. : 



Canning and preserving ........... $ 61,162,849 



Timber and lumber ............... 52,860,272 



Slaughtering and meat-packing .... 50,011,820 



Flour-mill products .............. 24,078,735 



Butter, cheese, condensed milk ..... 30,466,428 



Sugar-beets ...................... 15,528,666 



Vinous liquors ................... 11,299,858 



Leather, tanned and finished ....... 10,020,739 



Food preparations ................ 8,010,713 



Fertilizers ....................... 2,330,761 



Agricultural implements .......... 1,962,235 



Total ........................ $267,733,076 



Thus it appears that 37 J per cent of the total value 

 of manufactured commodities of California is rural. 

 The total of $72,800,764 includes the products of 

 seventy-one specified lines of manufacture and 



