382    ROCKINGHAM.

000 pounds butter, 73,000 pounds cheese, 66,000 tons hay, and
6,128 pounds maple sugar. Th6 total value of agricultural
productions, of all kinds, was $2,640,000.

Manufactories. The manufactures of the County are varied and
important, of which men’s and women’s boot and shoe manufacturing
is much the largest branch. The stock for many of the boots and
shoes, made in the county, comes from the large shoe manufactories
in Lynn and Haverhill, Massachusetts, ready cut out and generally
put up in sixty pair cases, and sent by cars to their various destina-
tions, to be bound and bottomed. This stock is charged to the
workmen, the same as if it were in the leather, consequently, this
State should have the credit of the benefit of the betterments, and
the amount of the production, while, heretofore, Massachusetts has
claimed the workmen, amount paid them, and the sale. This
may duplicate New-England business, but it rightfully belongs to
New-Hampshire. In 1870, the census gave the county as capital
invested in the boot and shoe business, $ 194,000, employing 701
workmen, with annual amount of wages, $ 230,284, value of pro-
ductions, $ 941,912. There is now invested in shoe business, $ 264,
000, employing 623 hands, annual pay-roll, $ 276,500, and produc-
ing 930,000 pairs of boots and shoes, valued at $ 1,059,000. There
are also employed on shoes, the stock of which was put up in cases,
and brought from out of the State, 1,269 hands, annual pay-roll,
$ 522,600, and producing 2,937,000 pairs of boots and shoes, val-
ued at $ 3,167,000. This credit of over $ 500,000, the receipts for
the labor of over 1,230 workmen, has been given to Massachusetts,
as part of her resources, but by what tangible right, we are unable
to explain.

Cotton Goods. This branch of business, is gradually increasing.

15,100,000 yards of cotton cloth of various widths, are annually
manufactured, valued at $ 1,645,000; 618,000 yards woolen goods,
valued at $214,000; 95,000 pairs hose, $ 152,000; 245,000 clap-
boards ; 6,355,000 shingles and laths; and 29,667,000 feet boards
and dimension lumber sawed, valued at $474,300; 234,500 bush-
els grain ground, $ 267,700, besides various other manufactories.
The total capital invested in manufactories of all kinds, is $ 3,926,
000 ; men employed, 3,840; women and children, 1,362; annual
pay roll, $ 2,008,500, and value of productions, $ 11,005,000. (See
tables.)

Valuation and Taxes. The total assessed value of the county, in