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VALUL OF PRODUCTS OF MANUFACTURES AGRICULTURE 

 RESPECTIVELY 1870™ 1900 



IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 



MANUFACTURE 



AGRICULTURE 



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 2212 _ 

 1958 -m | 



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1870 '80 '90 1900 1870 '80 '90 1900 



INCREASE $8,806,954-, I24-. INCREASE $ 1,806,14-6,779. 



GAIN 208^ II GAIN 92% 



DIAGRAM NO. 6 



VALUE OF MANUFACTURES EXPORTED 

 1800 ™ |902. 



IN MILLIONS OF DOLLABb 



rei.i 



to. 5 



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The increase in the value of manu- 

 factured products from 1870 to 1900 

 was 208 per cent, while that of agri- 

 cultural products was 92 per cent. I 

 present these figures of total values of 

 manufactures and agricultural products 

 respectively merely for the purpose of 

 showing the relative growth rather than 

 relative value of product. A mere com- 

 parison of the aggregate value of man- 

 ufactures with aggregate value of agri- 

 cultural products would manifestly do 

 injustice to agriculture, since, as al- 

 ready explained, the statement of the 

 gross value of manufactures contains 

 many duplications, while there are but 

 few duplications in the statement of total 

 products of agriculture. But a com- 

 parison to show the relative growth of 

 the two industries, or the percentage of 

 growth in each, seems not improper, 

 since the duplications of value in the 

 statement of total manufactures have 

 existed in all census reports, and a fairly 

 accurate estimate of the percentage of 

 growth ma3' therefore be had for use 

 in comparing with the percentage of 

 growth in agricultural products. 



One especially interesting fact which 

 the recent census developed is that our 

 manufacturing industry draws 80 per 

 cent of its raw material from farms of 

 the country and actually utilizes one- 

 half of the agricultural products of the 

 country. The great cotton and woolen 

 manufacturing industries obtain their 

 raw material from the agriculturist, the 

 material used b}* the manufacturer of 

 leather originates on the farm or ranch, 

 as do also those used in the manufacture 

 of wines and liquors, the tobacco man- 

 ufacturing industry, the milling and 

 canning industries, and various other 

 lines of manufacture. The census esti- 

 mates that 80 per cent of the raw material 

 used in manufacturing is the product of 

 agriculture, and that 51 per cent of the 

 value of the products of agriculture was 

 purchased and used by the manufact- 

 urers of the country as raw material in 



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1800 20 fO 60 70 '80 '90 96 1902 



DIAGRAM NO. 7 



