TABLE 5.-CORN, WHEAT, AND WHEAT FLOUR CONSUMED, BY INDUSTRY: 1947 1 Data represent consumption of corn and wheat in establishments which reported detailed consumption statistics in the census. Such establishments accounted for 97 percent of the total production of the industries represented. For individual States, their proportion of total production varied from 90 percent to 100 percent. Data include estimated consumption of flour in establishments which did not report detailed statistics, and in retail single-outlet bakeries not included in the census. The figures headed "Percent estimated" represent the proportion of the total which was estimated. 3 Data represent total industrial consumption, except as indicated in text and footnotes. A small amount of wheat was consumed by this industry, but no data were collected in the census. TABLE 6.-CORN, WHEAT, AND WHEAT FLOUR CONSUMED, BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1947 d Withheld to avoid disclosing figures for individual companies. 9,751 59, 797 1 Consumption in bakeries only. Consumption by macaroni manufacturers in these States is included in regional totals. Not shown because the amount of estimation required was more than 30 percent of the total. Not shown because establishments reporting detailed statistics accounted for less than 90 percent of total production for the State. Pulpwood. Data on the quantity and cost of pulpwood consumed by the pulp mill industry represents 100 percent coverage of this commodity. Wood pulp.-Consumption data for wood pulp shown in table 7 account for approximately 99 percent of the total supply. The distribution of these data by States (table 8), however, has been limited to the use of wood pulp by the Paper and Board Industry in order to avoid disclosing operations of individual companies in the other industries. The Paper and Board Industry accounts for 96.5 percent of the total annual supply of wood pulp. Data on the cost of wood pulp consumed are not available. Information on the value of shipments of wood pulp was reported separately for interplant transfers and other shipments (see census pamphlet MC-26A). Since approximately 80 percent of all wood pulp produced is consumed by the producing company, and the value of these transfers closely approximates the cost of these materials to the consuming mills, cost data were not collected. Paper and board. The data on the consumption of paper and board shown in table 7 are exclusive of building paper and board grades, and account for approximately 82 percent of the total available supply. The 1947 domestic production of building paper and board amounted to 2,629,008 short tons. Of this total, 1,208,108 tons were transferred to plants affiliated with the producing paper mill for further fabrication into roofing, siding, and floor covering materials, and 819,084 tons of insulating materials in finished form were distributed directly through the regular building material channels. It was not considered feasible to collect cost information on a uniform basis for all major consuming industries from which consumption data were collected, because of the various customs of billing for materials used in some of the printing and publishing industries. For example, printers often do not furnish an itemized statement of the cost of materials to the publisher, and consequently the publisher from whom the paper consumption information was requested, could not report cost of the paper. The consumption statistics for the printing and publishing industries included in this table represent the amount of paper consumed in publishing newspapers, periodicals, books, greeting cards, and miscellaneous publishing; in commercial printing, lithographing, and engraving; and in the manufacture of 230 blankbooks and loose-leaf products without regard to the industry classification of the reporting establishments. For more detailed information, see Census of Manufactures Pamphlets MC-27A, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Books, and MC-27B, Commercial Printing, Greeting Cards, Bookbinding and Related Industries. In table 8, Consumption of Selected Materials by States, it was necessary to assign the paper consumption data reported by the periodical and book publishing industries to the State in which the publisher was located. However, these data do not necessarily represent the States in which the paper was actually consumed since the publishers often have this printing done by printers located in other States. It is believed that this limitation does not seriously affect the usefulness of these data as the magazine, periodical, and book publishing industries accounted for less than 15 percent of the total reported consumption of paper. For more detailed information on the consumption of paper in the printing of magazines, periodicals, and books by States, see the Census of Manufactures Pamphlet MC-27A, Newspapers, Periodicals, and Books. The classification of paper and board used in the collection of consumption data from paper and board products manufacturers differs from that used in collecting paper consumption statistics from printers and publishers. Therefore, with the exception of newsprint, the grade detail shown for these two groups are not additive. These data contain a relatively small amount of duplication. This duplication arises from the fact that the product of one paper consuming industry may be the material of another industry. For example, establishments engaged in coating paper consumed 324,894 tons of paper (base stock) in producing 364,665 tons of coated paper. This coated paper is reported as a material consumed by other industries, such as the printing and publishing industries, and, therefore, the weight of the base stock before coating enters twice into these consumption figures. This duplication does not arise in the case of coated paper which is coated as part of the primary paper making process. There is also a small amount of duplication in the consumption of waxed paper. However, it is believed that the amount of duplication contained in these figures is less than 2.5 percent of the total. 1 Cost of pulpwood consumed, $344,959,000. d Withheld to avoid disclosing figures for individual companies. Container board, 4,680,139 tons; bending board, 1,847,823 tons; nonbending board, 475,762 tons; and miscellaneous boards, 26,456 tons. Includes small quantity of paper and board used in the manufacture of paper and board products by establishments classified in other industries (textile bags, etc.). 4 In addition, there were 18,139 tons of paper consumed in the "Carbon paper and inked ribbons" industry. Represents the amount of paper consumed in publishing newspapers, periodicals, books, greeting cards, and miscellaneous publishing; in commercial printing, lithographing, and engraving; and in the manufacture of blank books and loose-leaf products without regard to the industry classification of the reporting establishments. TABLE 8.-PULP, PAPER. AND BOARD CONSUMED, BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1947 1 Represents data on the consumption in the manufacture of paper and board only. disclosing figures for individual companies. Includes data for Texas. Data on the use of wood pulp by other industries (see table 7) withheld to avoid Data on the consumption of paper by the magazine, periodical, and book publishing industries, included in this tabulation, are distributed according to the location of the publisher. See text for explanation. Includes data for Illinois. Includes data for Maryland and South Carolina. Chemicals. CHEMICALS, CRUDE PETROLEUM, AND RUBBER Consumption data for the chemicals listed below were collected only for those industries known to use the great bulk of these materials in manufacturing. Therefore, the totals contained in this table do not represent total United States consumption. For example, the 1.3 million tons shown for sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) are estimated to be only about 60 percent of the total "disappearance," since information for this chemical was secured only from establishments producing organic and inorganic chemicals, soap and cleaning preparations, pulp, paper, and paperboard, and refining petroleum. No data were gathered from plants classified in the textile industries, rubber reclaiming, refining of vegetable oils, or other industries. In making any comparison of the quantity consumed with supply for the several chemicals, account should be taken of the factors discussed in the general introduction to the materials consumption tables. In addition, consideration should be given to the variation in handling consumption data for inorganic chemicals produced and consumed in the same establishment. Since the production and consumption data collected for certain inorganic chemicals included quantities which were subsequently used in producing other physical modifications of the specified chemicals, adjustments were made so that the consumption data shown below do not reflect these amounts. Any "disappearance" calculations for a given inorganic chemical, such as chlorine, also should take into account that the apparent total supplies published by the Census Bureau include quantities used in the converting process described above. In some instances, data are shown for a group of industries rather than for a specific industry because the published data might disclose the operations of individual companies, or because plants classified in one industry produce appreciable quantities of products classified in other industries. For example, some establishments classified in the Soap and Glycerin Industry (2841) ship a considerable volume of synthetic organic detergents which are classified in the Cleaning and Polishing Preparations Industry (2842). Consumption data for these two industries are shown as a combined figure rather than for each industry separately. Crude petroleum.-The figures for crude petroleum represent consumption at petroleum refineries only. However, petroleum refineries account for practically all the United States consumption of crude petroleum. Rubber. Consumption data shown in table 9 for rubber are limited to the quantities of natural, synthetic (chemical), and reclaimed rubber consumed by the establishments classified in the specified industries. This table does not show the total United States rubber consumption for all industries, estimates of which are prepared by the Rubber Division, United States Office of Domestic Commerce. Based on the 1947 figures released by this agency, the establishments classified in the industries shown here used approximately 93 percent of the total new rubber and about 88 percent of the total reclaimed consumed in the United States, or about 92 percent of all the rubber consumed. Additional detail showing quantities of rubber consumed by kind and by broad classes of products are shown in Volume II, Reports for Industries, "Rubber Products Industries," table 7. TABLE 9.-CHEMICALS, CRUDE PETROLEUM, AND RUBBER CONSUMED BY SPECIFIED INDUSTRIES: 1947 [Money figures in thousands of dollars] |