TABLE 2.-Indices of agricultural imports, pay rolls in manufacturing industries, cash farm income from sale of dairy products and prices received by farmers for butterfat

1 Imports are "general imports" through 1933 and "imports for consumption" thereafter. Income from sale of butterfat, farm butter, and milk.

For reasons of national security, publication of detailed foreign trade statistics beginning with the data for 1941 has been suspended.

Index of agricultural imports.-Records of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Index of pay rolls in manufacturing industries.-Federal Reserve Bulletin, March
1943, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Index of cash farm income from sale of dairy products.-1920 through 1939 from
records of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; 1940 through 1942 from Net Farm
Income in 1942 About $10,200,000,000, Mar. 1, 1943, U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Inder of prices received by farmers for butterfat.-1920 through 1928, 1941, and
1942 from records of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; 1929 through 1940
from Crops and Markets, February 1942, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

TABLE 3.-Indices of agricultural imports, pay rolls in manufacturing industries, cash farm income from sales of meat animals, and prices received by farmers for beef cattle

1 Imports are "general imports" through 1933 and "imports for consumption" thereafter.

2 Income from sale of cattle and calves, hogs, and sheep, and lambs.

For reasons of national security, publication of detailed foreign trade statistics beginning with the data for 1911 has been suspended.

4 Revised.

Preliminary.

Sources:

Index of agricultural imports.-Records of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Index of pay rolls in manufacturing industries.--Federal Reserve Bulletin, March
1943. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Index of cash farm income from sale of meat animals.-1920 through 1939 from
records of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; 1940 through 1942 from Net Farm
Income in 1942 About $10,200,000,000, Mar. 1, 1943, U. S. Department of
Agriculture.

Index of prices received by farmers for beef cattle.-1920 through 1939 from
Agricultural Prices, April 1942 and 1940 through 1942 from records of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.

1935-39 = 100