[204] _The Gardener’s Chronicle_, 20th April, 1895, p. 483. The same, I learn from a German grower near Berlin, takes place in Germany. [205] I am indebted for the following information to M. V. Euvert, President of the Chamber of Commerce of St. Etienne, who sent me, while I was in the Clairvaux prison, in April, 1885, a most valuable sketch of the various industries of the region, in reply to a letter of mine, and I avail myself of the opportunity for expressing to M. Euvert my best thanks for his courtesy. This information has now an historical value only. But it is such an interesting page of the history of the small industries that I retain it as it was in the first edition, the more so as it is most interesting to compare it with the pages given in the text to the present conditions of the same industries. [206] It had been 5,134,000 kilogrammes in 1872. _Journal de la Société de Statistique de Paris_, September, 1883. [207] I take these figures from a detailed letter which the President of the Lyons Chamber of Commerce kindly directed to me in April, 1885, to Clairvaux, in answer to my inquiries about the subject. I avail myself of this opportunity for addressing to him my best thanks for his most interesting communication. [208] _La fabrique lyonnaise de soieries. Son passé, son prêsent._ Imprimé par ordre de la Chambre de Commerce de Lyon, 1873. (Published in connection with the Vienna Exhibition.) [209] Marius Morand, _L’organisation ouvrière de la fabrique lyonnaise_; paper read before the Association Française pour l’avancement des Sciences, in 1873. [210] _Journal de la Société de Statistique de Paris_, June 1901, pp. 189-192, and “Résultats Généraux,” in vol. iv. of the above-mentioned publication. [211] Here is how they are distributed: Workmen working single-handed, 124,544; with their families, but without paid workmen, 8,000; less than 10 workmen, 34,433 factories; from 10 to 100 workpeople, 4,665 factories; from 101 to 200 workpeople, 746 factories; from 201 to 500 workpeople, 554; from 501 to 1,000, 123; from 1,001 to 2,000, 38; more than 2,000, 2 factories. [212] In an excellent monograph dealing with this branch (_Le développement de la fabrique et le travail à domicile dans les industries de l’habillement_, by Professor Albert Aftalion, Paris, 1906), the author gives most valuable data as to the proper domains of domestic work and the factory, and shows how, why, and in which domains domestic work successfully competes with the factory.