The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24

grist mill products, and starch. Anls bulletin forms part of the repor, oh the census of manufactures TOT lsvo' '.s and was prepared under the supers,s ion of Mir William M. Steuart, chiei statistician for manufactures ,.
 Butfer. Cheese and Condensed MHA-
 At the census of 1905 only sucn es- tab,ishments were included Tn the " port for this industry as were ensas ss'tl su primarily in the manufacture Q. ou ter, cheese or condenser uiN -,,,- "a l., engaged primarily in selling Mlin o, nt se-arating cresm from milk were not regarded as engaged in uanufactur'hs.
 GeuereI Condition of the tndusfrS.
 Tn 1905 there were s.92s estapHsn- nents er,gares ins the industry naV.ns capitai of s4T.2s5.sss. ernn' ovina fn. z 657 wage-earpers raying ss,4l2.sSf VI wsses ard renortire cost of rnate- %gafs .mot,ntiur to sfA2 a2n277 ana pro- ducts valued al siss.fs2.7ss All or thase Items ercert the number or es- taflishrrerts show enhstantiaI 'ncreass- s'' 2 dur'n~ the five years since the esnst. Of 1900. that in value Q. .as.rss sents sn ineresse of ss.s per cent. or ove- onA-fourth . a,-
 -1he decrease ir the number or tabIishrnents was principa'ly due to .He consolidation or absor-tion or smamIr creameries Into larger plants. Land separation. which enan,es the i. mer to separate his own cream was proninent factor tn this tenoenry .o ,eentraIization, as cream can easily pc harIed sraat distances. and 1t thus nas bacone possible for a single crea mery to obtain it's suppiv from wioe ter. vtiorv. As a result the larger plshts, ,. in which butter was panufacturea a. less expense. gradually cro"ueu os absorbed smaller rlarts.
 wsterinIs.
 nrhA totaI cost of materials shows an increase of s34.078.07T. or Si.s -er s,, There was a decrease or iZl' l'ao..o.i pounds. or IA re- cent ln ,s,o ns s,a s- ,ncrease in the quantity or cream ns asts1s.s1s pounds. or 1SS.s per cent. srhasa rbaorea are due 70 the intrcduc- ttnn os the hand sAparator. as ManS ,,;. faryners who formerly delivered n,.n ,.r lo the factories now deliver cream on,y I.,,. There are increases n sne coss sa7 g nf AT per cent and of cream .S "a, cart indicating that the suppiv 70 tss. tscts.r;es has been curtailed ana tne ort~a increased as result ot .ho craa sing svnand for milk ana cream 'n the large cities.
 Products.
 w..-. ~,as a great nroportionate lns ,rsssa both in the quality and Vo'u,ne os condensed milk manufacturso ,ans fsvean the censuses of lsOv anu .9y' rhe increase in duenftty amoun.so p fa1 sss. .s95 pounds. or 6S per cent; an" nu that in cost to $s.See a9V, ~ .n cert There was also a large lnereasS in the quantity of butter proauceu ar,o,,ntine fo III .3sf.595 pounds. or 2o.5 sa, seot The increase in the quant,ty os cheese was s5.172.54s pounds. or aS'o per cent.
 ne .he total number of establishments ts s, the industr-- "A ner S'nt. were io- catea in six states-New York, Wiscon- sin. iowa. Illinois. Minnesota, ana Penn svivania. These states reported proa- uets valued at sfts.799,SI0. or osI PCT New York ranked first with products valued at $S1.O47,77s. and Wisconsin second, with products valued at szS', ss4,7s1. In value butter constituted over 997 per cent. Of the total Rfouucs Rs reported for Minnesota and Iowa, ana was also the principal product In Wis consin and Pennsylvania. In New fork cheese and condensed milk amounted 10 nearly SO per cent. of the total ana in Illinois condensed milk alone to little more than 50 per cent. Wiseon' sin led in the number both Of nu teE factories or creameries and of cheese factories, with 902 and 1.A64, respective ly, and New York In the number or con densed milk establishments. with 25.
 Mine States reported the manufacture of more than $20O, ,000, ,000 pounds of but ter In 1905, wisconsin leading with S9,i5b,975 pounds New York, Wilson. sin, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania reported 2sT.ss0,39i pounds. or sos per cent of the total quantity or cheese produced, New York leading with 1884, S36 428 pounds New York and llli- nois, with half of the total number of establishments, produced 1S5,e05,407 pounds, or 6S.5 per cent. of the total condensed milk product.
 Imports and Exports.
 The export trade in butter and cheese Is comparatively small, the volumes re- DOT: ed for the two commodities in 1904 being $1,76S,S24 and $2,462,239, respect ively. Great Britain and Canada are the chief foreign markets for these products The quantity of butter tm- ported is insignincant amounting In value to but $34,764 in 1904. but the importation of cheese has shown Q steady growth both in quantity and vaiue. In 1904, 22,707,I03 pounds of cheese, valued at $3,2S4.Sll. were im- ported increases over 1900 of s,25i,- 1I3 pounds and $1,o23.l97, respectively.
 Flour and Grist MlII Products.
 Tn statistics for flour and grist mills products include only the returns of es- tablishments engaged in merchant mlil- ing; thus data tor mllis engaged solely in custom grinding do not appear in the census report Al the census of I9Uo there were lO,051 of the mercnant flour and grist mills in the United States, Their total capital was $265, II7. .434i they employed Ss,ll0 wage-earners, pad $l9,S2l,960 in wages, consumed $6l9,97I.l6l worth of materials, and manufactured products of tue value of S7l3,0s3,395. These hgures represent an increase, as compared with lDU0, the date of the preceding census, of e.l per cent in number of establishments, lO.l per cent in capital. 2i.4 per cent In wage earners, 2l.7 per cent in wages, AS per cent in cost of materials, and 42.2 per cent in value of products.
 Geographic Distribution.
 Of the different geographic divisions of the country, the North Central States had by far the largest share Of all the items of the industry at the cen- sus Of 1905. There were reported from this division 43.6 per cent of the estab- lishNents. 52.2 per cent of the capital, 54.2 per cent of he wage-earners. 56.s per cent of the wages 5S.i per cent of the cost of materials. and SIT per ceni of the value Of products reported for the whole United States.
 The three leading States in the indus try ranked by value of products for 1905 were Minnesota with sl22.059.i23 ar III per cent of the total for the limited states: New York with $54,54s.. A25. or 7.6 per cent of the total; and Kansas with $42,OS4,O19, or 5.9 per cent of the total.
 Minneapolis was the leading city m tbe industry. At the census of 1905, there were twelve mills in operation