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includes also $133,021,601 as the value of the prod- 

 ucts of "all other industries" which are not specified. 

 Those specified include everything from a newspaper 

 to a bottle of medicine and those not specified may be 

 taken to include everything else made by hand or 

 machine for public sale. In such a broad and inclu- 

 sive total, the percentage of agricultural manufac- 

 tures is remarkable. It is also notable that of the 

 four highest values assigned to specified industries 

 three are those named first in the tabulation above. 

 The second of these four is petroleum products and 

 they might properly be counted also a rural industry 

 as all the petroleum refineries are in rural districts 

 and such a preponderance of gasoline is released on 

 rural highways and in generating power for agricul- 

 tural purposes. 



The greatest of all the manufactures of California 

 is canning and preserving. This consists almost 

 wholly of the canning of fruits and vegetables and 

 the drying of fruits, with a small fraction of the 

 value consisting of dried vegetables. Next in rank 

 is petroleum products. The third is forest products 

 and the fourth is slaughtering and meat-packing. 

 The scope of these and the others in the agricultural 

 schedule is sufficiently indicated by their titles. 



The progress and attainment of California in 

 slaughtering and meat-packing are shown by the 

 United States Census Bureau as follows: 



191k 1909 190k 1899 



Number of es- 

 tablishments 108 94 76 64 



Value of 



products ...$50,011,820 $34,280,000 $22,013,000 $15,817.000 



