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UNITED STATES : — MASSACHUSETTS
vessel under the control of the State which is used to prevent incursion on the fishing grounds of the Conmion wealth.
Production, Industry, Commerce- -In 1910 the mimber of farms
in Massachusetts (a farm being dcriiied for census purpose- as 'any tract of land of three or more acres used for agricultural purposes, and also any tract containing less than three acres which produced at least 250 dollars worth of farm products in the year 1909') was 36,917 or 2*1 per cent, less than in 1900. Approximately 56 per cent, of the total land area of the State was in farms, the total acreage of farm land having decreased 8 '6 per cent, since 1900. Notwithstanding this decrease in area of farm lands, the value and productivity of such lands have increased considerably since 1900. The value of all farm property (including land valued at 105,532,616 dollars) in the State in 1910 was 226,474,025 dollars, representing au increase in value of 24 per cent, during the decade 1900-10. 0.^" the 36,917 farms in the State, approximate! f 87 per cent, were operated by the owners, 5 per cent, by managers, and 8 per cent, by tenants. The total value of the agricultural products of the State during the 5'ear 1909, was 31,948,095 dollars, represent- in «• an increase of 38 per cent, over the corresponding total for the year 1899. The principal agricultural products in 1909 with their values were : Hay and forage, 11,280,989 dollars ; potatoes and other vegetables, 8,184,213 dollais ; floAvers and plants and nuisery ])roducts, 3,061,342 dollars ; forest products of farms, 2,668,410 dollars : fruits and nuts, 2,108,799 dollars ; small fruits, 1,676,790 dollars; cereals, 1,617,131 dollars; and tobacco, 1,218,060 dollars. The cultivation of tobacco is confined largely to the Connecticut valley.
In the last half of the nineteenth century so many industrial enterprises came into existence that Ma.^sacbusetts has .been quite transformed from an agricultural into a manufacturing community. At })resent nearly three- fourths of the population dwell in the cities or closely settled places.
The census of manufactures in the State in 1910 s'howed that the total capital invested in manufactures was 1,194,442,498^ dollars (in 1905, 965,948,887 "-^ dollars), employing on the average 578,551 persons (in 1905, 488,399 persons), who earned 304,852,691 dollars (in 1905, 232,388,946 dollars), usingraw material valued at 863,381,866 dollars (in 1905,626,410,431 dollars), and turned out products worth 1,465,749,310 dollars (in 1905, 1,124,092,051 dollars).
Condensed statistics of the more important industries are given in the following table (1910 cfiisus) : —
Industries
No. of Estab- lish- ments
Capital invested
dollars
Stock used
Goods made
and work done
Peisons
em- ployed
Wages
dollars
dollars
dollars
Boots and shoes .
4') 6
7.'i,622,6SS
115,(524,486
190,856,515
77,000
45,171,454
Cotton goods
isn
2H0,99S,328
121,880,780
192,777,722
108,704
44,857,100
Worsted goods .
lb
90,433,967
55,942,628
89,395,948
33,526
14,785,019
Foundry and
machine shop
l)roducts . . .
581
84,830,525
28,282,380
77,665,761
41,730
26,785,938
Paper ....
93
43,213,739
25,869,769
43,020,325
13,382
6,871,253
Slaughtering, in-
cluding meat
packing .
43
1(5,0-24,397
38,232,641
41,963,342 2,686
1,484,321
Leather, tanned,
curried, and
i
finished . . .
133
38,623,608
30,346,759
41,544,425
10,691
5,808,631
Woollen goods .
94
27,18(5,489
19,001,559
31,264,304
15,027
7,147,217
Electrical
iiiacliin'jry
71
23,301, (.101
16,352,531
32,036,393
17,363
10,421,310
1 Not including borrowed money
2 Including borrowed money.
