'MANUFACTURES. The United States is the fore most manufacturing country in the world. The net value of its manufactured products in 1900 was nearly double that assigned by Mr. Nulhall to the manufactured products of Great Britain in 1894; and, according to the United States census estimate, was considerably over a third greater than the value of the British products in 1900. In the United States nearly 1,000,000 more persons were employed in 1900 in manufactories than were similarly employed in 1899 in Great Britain. Mr. Mullin]] also estimated that if the extra value of United States products due to a protective tariff be included, the United States produced about one-third of the total manufac tures of all nations. Ile claimed further that American manufactures multiplied twenty-fold between 1840 and 1894, while those of Europe only doubled. Manufacturing is absolutely the most rapidly growing of the American industries, and has become of coordinate importance with, if not of importance than either of the two other leading Ameriean industries—agricul ture and trade transportation.
The net value of the products of manufacture in 1900 was more than double the value of the net products of the farm. Even after the crude materials contributed by the farm, the forest, the mine, and the sea have been eliminated from the total net value of manufactured products, the value still exceeds by more than one sixth the net value of agricultural products. The value of manufactured products was twelve times as great in 1900 as in 1850, whereas the value of agricultural products was only three times as great. The number of individuals engaged in manufacturing was nearly a fourth less than the number in agriculture and over one-fourth greater than the number engaged in trade and transpor tation. See paragraph on Occupations in section on Population.