ANNUAL REPORT—MANUFACTURES. 
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Under such circumstances as have marked the past ten years, 
this interest has made astonishing strides. No other has 
equaled it. 
Let us compare some of the figures of 1860 and 1870,noting, 
more especially, those branches of manufacturing industry 
which have assumed the greatest importance. 
Of the extensive manufacture of lumber we have already 
spoken under a previous heading. 
The manufacture of flour , which in 1860 amounted to the 
large sum of $11,510,834 in value, has advanced at a rate ex¬ 
ceeding 33 per cent. ; the total value of the product for 1870 
being $17,580,648. 
Cheese factories have sprung up in our state with astonish¬ 
ing rapidity. The whole number now in operation is said up¬ 
on good authority to be scarcely less than 125. With great 
effort we have obtained statistics from 75, which are accord¬ 
ingly presented in the following table. 
