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ECONOMIC MAMMALOGY 



cept furs) industries in the United States are culled from the statis- 

 tical abstract of the United States for 1925 : 65 



Manufactures of leather and its finished products in the United States in 1923 : 



Leather, tanned, curried and finished $ 488,898,000 



Total value finished products of leather 1,391,183,000 



Boots and shoes, excluding rubber $1,000,078,000 



Boot and shoe cut-stock and findings not made in 



shoe factories 137,303,000 



Belting for machinery, etc 37,7^3,000 



Leather gloves and mittens 38,081,000 



Pocketbooks, purses and cardcases 32,732,000 



Saddlery and harness 42,113,000 



Trunks, suitcases and bags 63,023,000 



Miscellaneous leather goods 40,130,000 



Hides and skins produced in 1923, except furs $ 91,226,000 



Imports of hides and skins in 1925 $ 96,754,000 



Cattle hides $ 26,695,000 



Buffalo hides (India, etc.) 705,000 



Kip and calf skins 8,599,000 



Horse, colt and mule skins 1,490,000 



Sheep and lamb skins 23,458,000 



Goat and kid skins 33,i97,ooo 



Kangaroo and wallaby skins 561,000 



All other skins except furs 2,049,000 



Imports of leather $ 22,413,000 



Imports of leather manufactures 13,858,000 



$ 133,025,000 



Exports of hides and skins in 1925, except furs $ 12,031,000 



Exports of leather 52,127,000 



Exports of leather manufactures 20,562,000 



$ 84,720,000 



According to Holmes the production of hides and skins in the United 

 States in 1915 was as follows: 66 calf skins, 5,424,000; goat skins, 

 432,000; cattle hides 12,645,000; sheep skins 15,865,000; total 

 34,366,000 skins. 



In 1914 the boot-and-shoe manufactures of the United States were 

 placed at $445,000,000 (which may be compared with the 

 $1,000,000,000 for 1923), distributed as follows: 67 



Ohio $ 38,000,000 



Pennsylvania 25,000,000 



Other states 50,000,000 



Massachusetts $200,000,000 



New York 54,000,000 



Missouri 40,000,000 



New Hampshire 38,000,000 



66 Statistical abstracts of the United States for 1925, U. S. Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce, 1926. 



66 Holmes, Hides and skins, Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agric. for 1917, pp. 425-446. 



67 Allen, Shoe industry, pp. 33-37, 1922, citing U. S. Census for 1914, The leather 

 industry, Table 24. 



