AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT IN DUSTRY, The. One of the largest classified industries of the country, including the estab lishments whose products of greatest value are machines or implements designed for use in agriculture. Such implements fall naturally into four groups : (1) Implements of cultivation; (2) seeders and planters; (3) harvesting im plements; (4) seed separators. The first group includes plows, harrows and cultivators; the second, seeders, drills, planters and listers; the third, mowers and reapers, harvesters and hay rakes, hay tedders, hay forks, hay stackers, etc ; the fourth, threshers, fanning mills, corn husk ers and corn sheilers. Besides the production of new machinery there is a very large output of parts for replacement or repair of worn-out mechanisms, amounting to some $60,000,000 annually.
The special census of manufactures made for the year 1914 shows that in that year there were 772 establishments engaged wholly or partly in the making of agricultural imple ments. Their combined product amounted to 3,318,176 implements of cultivation; 634.929 seeders and planters; 1,076,769 harvesting im plements; and 140,803 seed separators. Their aggregate value was $160,120,632, which, as compared with the value in 1909 —$149,318,544 — shows an increase of 12.6 per cent in the five years. These totals include a value of $60,211, 327 for parts and miscellaneous implements and $1,460,590 received for repairs.
The industry, as might be expected, is widely distributed over the country, every farming community constituting a centre of demand. Of the 772 establishments engaged in the industry in 1914, 86 were located in Illinois, 67 in Ohio, 61 in Wisconsin, 58 in New York, 49 in Penn sylvania, 45 in California, 42 in Indiana, 40 each in Iowa and Michigan, 35 in Minnesota, 27 in Missouri, 25 in Tennessee, 22 each in North Carolina and Virginia, 18 in Georgia, 14 in Ver mont, 12 in Kansas, 11 in Maine, 10 each in Alabama and New Jersey, 7 each in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Washington, 6 each in Connecticut and Mississippi, 5 in Texas, 4 in Colorado, 3 each in Arkansas, Florida, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Carolina and South Dakota, 2 each in Idaho, Oklahoma and West Virginia, and 1 each in Louisiana and Montana.
There is some concentration of the industry, however, the first five states named doing fully 75 per cent of the entire business. Agricultural implements constitute one of the most important classes of export from the United States. The value of such machinery exported before the Euro ,ean war ranged from $30,000,000 to $40,111,000 annually. For the fiscal year end ing 30 June 1915 the value exported dropped to about $10,000,000. See FARM MACHINERY.