The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20
FARMING IMPLEMENTS INDUSTRY IN U. s.
 IS OF VAST SCOPE

Washington, D. C.. Sept. 20.-Sta- tistics of the agricultural implement Industry in the United States for 1909 are presented in detail in a bulletin soon to be issued by Director liar ris of the Bureau of the Census, De- sDartuaent of Commerce. It was pre- pared under hte direction of w. M. Stewart, chief statistician for manu- factures.
 The industry includes establish rnents whose products of chief value are machinery or implements design ed for use in agriculture. Agri- cultural i'm np1ements in general are df- tided into four groups, namely, inn plements of cultivation, seeders and planters, harvesting implements, and seed Separators. These groups in turn are sub-dfvfded into numerous classes.
 The increasing acreage under cul- tivation and the difficulty of procur- ing farm labor in the United States. together with the demand for agri- cultural Implements in foreign mar I0ets. have not only brought about a vast growth in the industry but have no doubt been influential factors in the development of more expensive and intricate agricultural machinery. Statistics of the Industry.
 At the census of 1s4S, 1888 estab- Ifshments were reported as engaged m the Dz4nuAdCEuIS OA dA implements, the employees number ing 7,22O and the products being val ued at $6S42,611. At the census of 1s5s 1889 esta abIishments, giving em- ployment to an average of IA L hands. were reported, the value of products amounting to SIT, ,597, ,96O.
 The number of establishments re- porting in 1909 was $40, with pro- ducts valued at s146.329,26s, as com pared with 2,O76 establishments in ] 1s6s. reporting products valued at $52s 2se66,ST5, which shows the remark able growth and concentration of the Industry The $40 establishment in SSe9 reported capital of s256, 6,2s1, ,0S6, with 6o.229 persons engaged in the industry, of whom 50,551 were wage earners The expenses were $117,- $40. .357, of which s2S, ,60s,615 was for wages and $1o.139.99s for salaries The cost of materials used was ESQ., 306.51 and the miscellaneous expen- ses s1s.Ss5,225. The value added to the materials used by manufacture was sS6.O22,74e-
 Of the persons engaged in the in- dustry in 1909, 5S.517 were males and 1.T12 females, of whom GA per cent were clerks; the average number of children under 16 years of age em- ployed as wage earners was only 2o6, Practically all (94.S per cent.) of the wage earners were employed in es- sabfishments where the prevailing hours were from 54 to 50 per week.
 Comparisons of the returns for each census from 1889 to 1909 show an increase in value of products for each census. varying from 18.4 per cent for the decade 1879-18S9 to 44.6 for 1s9s-19O9- The absolute in- crease for this latter period was s45,- 121.s40, of which 34,S21,924 repre- sents the increase from 1904 to 1909 The value of products in 1909 was aI- most three times as great as that in 1889. A considerable part of the to- tai value of products represents pro- ducts other than agricultural irnpIe- rnents So far as these products could be identified, their value in 1909 amounted to $11, ,829, cov- Rr1nx products primarily nnanufact11x-