Extra Census Bulletin, Vol. 66

The question respecting employs and wages used at the Tenth Census generally called only for atest number of hands employed at any one time during the year, also the average number of hands ed without designating the different classes, while the question used at the Eleventh Census called for number of employs to be reported by classes of officers, firm members, clerks; operatives, skilled and unskilled, and pieceworkers.

The cost of materials used is the reported cost at the place of consumption. The value of products is the reported value at the factory of the total product for the year, not including any allowance for commissions or expenses of selling. The difference between the apparent cost and the value of manufactured product as presented can not be taken as a correct indication of manufacturers' net profits, because many. Items of expense enter into the mercantile portion of the business, which branch is not within the scope of the census inquiry. The data furnished in the reports relating to depreciation of manufacturing plants are not sufficient to form a basis for correct computation, and therefore are omitted from these tables. The following industries were entirely omitted at the census of 1880, but are included in the totals presented for 1890, viz: bottling; cars and general shop construction and repairs by steam railroad companies; china decorating; clothing, women's, dressmaking; co?ins and burial cases, trimming and finishing; cotton, cleaning and rehandling; cotton ginning, cotton waste; drug grinding; druggists' preparations, not including prescriptions; gas, illuminating and heating; hay and straw baling; millinery, custom work; petroleum refining.

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