Show THIS COUNTRY'S MANUFACTURES The chief of the hurc bureau ll of manufactures Col oL John it M. M Carson gives the value of the manufactures annually produced in in the United States at at a sum bum exceeding c the entire value of all the property in the United States forty years ago It is isan isan isan an almost inconceivable sum It is more than double the tIle entire agricultural products for these are given b by Secretary Wilson at but in these I two amounts there thero must be an overlapping of or values for wheat for instance is an agricultural product t I but when it it is ground into flour it is a manufactured manufactured I ture product The rhe same is true of fruit on the tree and canned calmed fruit Corn CorD is an all agricultural product but hut when I converted con into pork and beef it becomes a manufactured manu manu- I product In Iii the thc same wa way the mineral I I product of coal and und iron are arc worth so much but I when the coal is consumed and the iron is changed into steel the steel is a manufactured ed product But I the figures are something gigantic taken in any form These mam manufactured products made up aP 58 per cent of all our exports during the last fiscal year and show au an increase of of completed manu manu- manufactures manufactures manufactures over the previous pre year jear though a there was a decline of in the exports of cotton cloth These items alone alono g give ge e an idea of what incredible amounts of mone money are needed to carry on OIl the business business business busi busi- ness of this nation t |