In the 1914 census flour mills and grist mills were reported for every State in the Union and for the District of Columbia. In some of the States the mills are still operated by waterpower and equipped with buhrstones. These mills reported 2,905 runs of stone for 1914 as against 10,609 runs in 1909, the change being due to the fact that the steel attrition mill is replacing the buhrstone. The equip ment of the mills reporting for 1914 consisted of 42,841 stands of rolls, 7,704 runs of stone, and 6,793 attrition mills or steel grinders, in cluding steel buhr mills.
The following table gives the output of the several States arranged in the order of their relative importance in the milling industry, the number of mills in each, and the value of their 1914 production: Minnesota, 286 mills $148,243,708 New York, 891 mills 77,408,764 Kansas. 360 mills 72,894,736 Illinois. 406 mills 49.493,224 Ohio, 649 mills 45,171,200 Pennsylvania, 1,265 mills 43.626,356 Missouri, 641 mills 38,686,309 Indiana. 512 mills 37,488,223 Texas, 191 mills 35.110,301 Wisconsin, 252 mills 28,697,413 Michigan. 427 mills 27,3411,474 Tennessee, 512 mills 26,413,574 California, 132 mills 24.078,735 Wasn. 100 mills 23,665,382 442 mills 21,229,203 Virpinia. 533 mills 18,084,413 Oklahoma, 253 mills 16,688,690 Nebraska, 211 mills 15,022,126 Iowa, 227 mills 14,336.576 North Dakota, 59 mills 12,029.905 Oregon,_95 mills 11,192,573 North Carolina, 293 mills 8,963,501 Maryland. 247 mills 8.163,869 Colorado, 83 mills 7.535,633 West Virginia, 229 mills 7,052,814 Georgia, 128 mills 6.083.760 Arkansas, 102 mills 5,802,099 South Dakota, 72 mills 5,556,996 Montana. 33 mills 4,890,275 Maine, 148 mills 4,425,824 New Jersey, 196 mills 4,320.424 Vermont, 125 mills. • 4,142,854 Massachusetts. 105 mills 3,811,377 Idaho, 71 mills • 3.395,942 Utah. 70 milk 3,155,513 New Hampshire. 79 mills 2,733,820 Alabama, 73 mills 2,179,165 Connecticut, 85 mills 1,881,481 Delaware, 60 mills 1,483,410 Arizona 8 mills 1,064,996 Island, sland, 20 mills 797.553 Wyoming, 16 mills 721,818 Louisiana, 7 mills 687,387 New Mexico, 17 mills 424.501 South Carolina, 37 mills 420,629 Mississippi. 17 mills 410.332 Nevada, 7 mills 386,566 Florida. 13 mills 166,237 District of Columbia, 3 mills 18,048 The census shows a tendency of the milling industry to concentrate in large establishments under the control of corporations. Of the
whole number of 10,7:.: mills reported, 153 manufactured products valued at $1,000,000 or over, and these made 42.9 per cent of the total production of the entire number, 21 per cent were controlled by corporations which made 73.5 per cent of the entire output, and employed 3.5 per cent of all the wage-earners engaged n the industry. In 1,887 mills there were no rage-earners; the business was carried on by he proprietor. In 7,067 establishments there vere not more than five wage-earners. In but 9 establishments were there upwards of 100 wage-earners.
The horsepower employed in the industry otaled 822,384. Of this, 403,186 was generated iy steam engines; 112,441 by electricity; 229, f28 by waterpower; and 77,429 by internal com Ins t ion engines.
Of the 10,788 establishments making flour nill and grist-mill products in 1914, there were .912 which did not grind wheat flour, leaving ,876 mills which did produce that commodity,— figure 809 less than in 1909.
In the production of wheat flour in 1914 the itates producing the largest number of barrels vith the value of this output were as follows: linnesota, 27.132.155 bbls 3117.988,654 kuka3. 12.777,582 bbls 56.514,360 few York. 8.522.011 bbls 40.798.737 linois, 6.643.983 bbls 31,904,077 tic), 5,707.781 bbls 27,852,222 lineman', 3.402,391 bbls 25.633.118 ndiana, 4,526.879 bbls 21,183,688 'exits. 4,089,378 bbls 21.805,623 'ennsylvania, 3,975,031 bbls 19.795.110 Vashington. 3,765.070 bbls ennessee, 3,093,197 bbls 15,620,227 Visconsin, 3.056.954 bbls 13,817,821 4ichigan, 3.056,744 bbls 16,056.043 Centucky. 2.728.464 bbk 13.880, 767 lebraska, 2,383.097 bbls 10,944,855 Iorth Dakota, 2.165,078 bbls 9.864.400 irginia, 2,161.767 bbls 10,702 .388 'klahoma, 2,072.240 bbls 9,832,201 oregon. 1,791,334 bbls 7.749,619 aldornia, 1,783,007 bbls 10,341,92C Dwa. 1.488,811 bbls 7,149.334 :olorado, 1.229,225 bbls 4,923,304 laryland, 1,105.577 bbls S ,152 .538 forth Carolina, 951.805 bbls 5.231,853 outh Dakota, 920,070 bbls. 4.4.58,144 4ontana, 871,918 bbls 3,919,318 daho, 571.965 bbls 2,261.403 Vest Vinia. 520.940 bbls 2.732,780 /tah, 505.224 bbls 2,242,417 No other State made as many as 500,000 )arrels.