TABLE 1.-Indices of foreign trade, pay rolls in manufacturing industries, cash farm income, and prices received by farmers for agricultural products

Total foreign trade is exports including reexports and general imports.
Exclusive of Government payments.

Preliminary.

+ Revised.

Sources:

Index of total foreign trade.-1920 through 1940 from Statistical Abstract, 1941;
U. S. Department of Commerce; 1941 and 1942 from Federal Reserve Bulletin,
March 1943, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Inder of pay rolls in manufacturing industry.-Federal Reserve Bulletin, March
1943, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Index of cash farm income from marketings.-1920 through 1939 from The Farm
Income Situation, June 1942; 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 agricultural products.-1920 through 1941
from The Farm Income Situation. September 1942; for 1942 from The Demand
and Price Situation, March 1943, U. S. Department of Agriculture.

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.

+ Revised.

Preliminary.

Sources:

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

Inder 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.

Index 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.