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ssss1 J. R. Dodge, Farm and Factory: Aids to Agriculture from other Industries, New York and London, 1884, p. 111. I can but highly recommend this little work to those interested in the question.

ssss1 Per head of population the exports of British produce appear, in shillings, as follows:—

121s.137s.

1885 118s.

141s.

130s.142s.

1903 138s.

1904 141s.

1905 153s.

1906 173s.

194s.201s.

ssss1 The International Federation of the Cotton Industry employers gave, on March 1, 1909, the following numbers of spindles in the different countries of the Old and New Worlds:—

United Kingdom 53,472,000 = 41 per cent. United States 27,846,000 = 21 ” Germany 9,881,000 = 8 ” Russia 7,829,000 = 6 ” France 6,750,000 = 5 ” British India 5,756,000 = 4 ” Other nations 19,262,000 = 15 ” ————— — 130,796,000 = 100 ”

ssss1 J. Stephen Jeans, The Iron Trade of Great Britain (London, Methuen), 1905, p. 46. The reader will find in this interesting little work valuable data concerning the growth and improvement of the iron industry in different countries.