COST AND VALUE OF PRODUCTION. Only a very small number of employers replied to questions Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 of "Employers' General Blank No. 2." The object of these questions was to secure statistics showing the cost and value of production in Missouri. To these questions some replied that it was private business," others answered, "we don't know," while a great many never made any answer at all. Those who did answer, in several cases, did so manifestly with the intention to deceive the Bureau. From the limited material consequently at hand, we are enabled to compile the following table. (The returns are for the year from 1, 1878 to Sept. 1, 1879.) TABLE LIII.-COST AND VALUE OF PRODUCTION. Sept. |