marily in the manufacture of other products, reached a value of
$68,274,700, made up in the following manner:--

+------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+
| | Quantity. | Value. |
+------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+
| | Lbs. | $ |
|Hard soaps | ... | 56,878,486 |
|Tallow soap | 846,753,798 | 32,610,850 |
|Olein soap | 29,363,376 | 1,363,636 |
|Foots soap | 85,000,133 | 3,090,312 |
|Toilet soaps, including medicated, | | |
| shaving, and other special soaps | 130,225,417 | 9,607,276 |
|Powdered soaps, sold as such | 120,624,968 | 4,358,682 |
|All other soaps | 143,390,957 | 6,097,670 |
|Soft soap | 33,613,416 | 667,064 |
|Special soap articles | ... | 554,881 |
+------------------------------------+--------------+-------------+

_France_.--This country exported common soap during 1906 to the value of
L556,000, or L8,000 more than in 1905.

The chief centre of the soap industry is Marseilles, which, with about
fifty soap factories, produces annually some 3,000,000 cwts.

_Germany_ imported in 1905 soap and perfumery to the value of L3,032,
that exported amounting to L15,364.

In Saxony there are eighty soap factories.

_Russia._--There are fifty large soap factories in Russia, the annual
output from which is about 2,250,000 cwt.

_Roumania._--This country possesses about 230 small and eighteen large
soap and candle factories, most of which produce only common soap, there
being only one firm--in Bucharest--which makes milled soaps.

_Denmark._--In this country there are some 200 small soap factories.

_Australia._--According to a Board of Trade report, there were
ninety-eight soap and candle factories in Australia in 1905, employing
1,568 hands, and producing 495,036 cwt. of soap.

_Queensland._--In 1905 this country contained twenty-one soap and candle
works, in which 142 hands were employed, and having an output valued at
L86,324.

_Hong-Kong._--There are about twenty-four soap factories on this island.

_Japan._--A Swiss consular report states that in Japan there are now
some fifty soap works, producing about 15,000,00