Our country and its resources; . ear. Thecost of materials used was $14,-368,089,000, leaving $9,878,234,000as the value added by manufacture1. The salaries and wages paid outfor the year amounted to $5,367,, of which amount. $1,287, was paid to the sal-aried employees and $4,079,332,000to the 7,036,337 wage earners. It is impossible in the short spaceallotted to this subject to more thanindicate, in a general way, the ex-tent of manufacturing operations inthe United States. For conveniencethe industries are treated under thefollowing headings: ManufacturedFood Products
Our country and its resources; . ear. Thecost of materials used was $14,-368,089,000, leaving $9,878,234,000as the value added by manufacture1. The salaries and wages paid outfor the year amounted to $5,367,, of which amount. $1,287, was paid to the sal-aried employees and $4,079,332,000to the 7,036,337 wage earners. It is impossible in the short spaceallotted to this subject to more thanindicate, in a general way, the ex-tent of manufacturing operations inthe United States. For conveniencethe industries are treated under thefollowing headings: ManufacturedFood Products, Textiles, Iron and Steel Manufactures, Transportation,the Electrical industry, the LeatherIndustry, Paper and Printing andPublishing, Chemicals and AlliedProducts and Miscellaneous Indus-tries. Detailed information relativeto particular industries may be hadby addressing the Bureau of theCensus, Department of Commerce,Washington, I >. C. Unless otherwisestated the statistics given are for thecensus of manufactures for INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS Tabulating inventory of manufacturing plants Copyright by Munn & Co., Inc. £12 OIK COUNTRY AND ITS RESOURCES MANUFACTURED FOOD PRODUCTS SLAUGHTERING AND MEAT PACKING There were slaughtered for food inwholesale establishments during theyear 1!»14. 7,149,042 beeves, 2,019,004calves, 15,951,860 sheep and lambs andgoats and kids and .,913 total products were valued at $1,-651,765,424. The fresh meat aggregated6,656,031,002 pounds, valued at $769,-383,846, comprising: 3,658,333,660pounds of beef, valued at $421,296,794 :194,698,880 pounds of veal, valued at$26,299,446; 629,232,690 pounds of mut-ton and lamb, including some goat at $74,675,627; 1,877,099,071pounds of pork, valued at $226,535,734;and 296,666,701 pounds of edible offal,dnsscd poultry, goat meat, and game,valued at . Cured of dry salt, pickled andsmoked beef and pork, exclusive ofcanned meat, sausage and meat pud-
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