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not also be substracted from the gross
value Of products of agriculture. Be.
sides all this, it is known that there is
duplication in the total
census valuation of products of manu-
facture. From the best information
which can be obtained, it is estimated
that the value Of products of manufac'
ture in the United States is from
eighty to ninety per cent. of the value
of the products Of agriculture.
ContemporaneOusly with the value
of products of manufacture. from ST.
1856, 1861 ,676 in 1860 to S., 1850, 579,191
in 1880, there was an increase in the
acreage of land in farms from 407, 0O0,-
600 acres in 1860 to $50, 900, 900 acres
in 1880-an increase of thirty.two per
cent, and an increase in the value of
farms of from So, 645, 045, OO7 in 1860 to
$40, 1877, O96,776 in 1880, or ffty-three
per cent.
The Importance of manufactures to
agriculture is indicated by the follow
ing facts in regard to the value of pro-
ducts of agriculture consumed in this
country and exported to foreign coun>
tries: The total value of the products
of agriculture in 1880, as before stated,
amounted to about S3,600,000, 900,
this being the value on the farm. The
farm value OF the exports of products
Of agriculture during the year ending
June 80, 1880, amounted, however, to
only about s5OO,OOO,OOO, showing that
eighty-six per cent. Of the total value
of products of agriculture was consum.
ed in the United States, and that only
=
fourteen per cent. was exported to
foreign countries. In other words, the
quantity consumed at home was six
times that sent abroad.
The extent to which the home mar
ket for agricultural products is sustain
ed by manufacturing industries may be
inferred from the following facts in re.
gard to occupations: According to
the census of 1880 there were in the
United States 17,392,099 persons hav-
ing occupations, of whom about g.
900, 900, Or twenty-one per cent, were
employed in manufacturing and me>
chanical industries. Presumably, the
earnings of these persons supplied the
means of support to at least 10000, 900
persons, including all workers and those
directly dependent on them for the
means of living. Besides this, the
manufacturing industries Of the coun-
try we're an essential condition to the
employment of a large portion of the
234, 22S persons engaged in mining,
the 4, 074.23S persons rendering per-
sonal and professional services, and
the 1,810,256 persons employed
in trade and transportation. 1t must
be remembered, also, that manufac-
lures gives rise not only to very large
and constant demand for products of
agriculture as food, but also for such
products as materials in the mechanic
arts. 1t is, of course, impossible, even
approximately, to estimate the total
number of persons actually employed
in agriculture, in mining, in trade, or in
transportation, or rendering personal or
professional services who, together with
their families, in greater or less de-
gree, indirectly owe their means of
support to manufactures. The forego'
ing facts in regard to the number of
persons engaged in the various occupa'
tons also serve in striking manner,
to illustrate the importance of manu-
features to the interest of labor.
The relations of agriculture to home
markets are, perhaps more clearly in
Dictated by the following fact: The
total value of the products of agricul
ture exported during the year ending
June 80, 1882, amounted to $552, 219,
S19, of which $512, 1857, $3.50, or ninety
three per cent, consisted of cotton
breadstufs, provisions, and live ami
mails, leaving only $39,351 $3.50, Oh
seven per cent, as the value of all 9th
er agricultural products exported. But
from the best information which car
be obtained, it appears that abou