This is the tenth volume of the 11 final reports of the Fourteenth Census, taken in the year 1920. The statistics and other materials found in these volumes are based upon data originally issued as advance bulletins for population, agriculture, irrigation, drainage, manufactures, and mines and quarries.

Volume X, the third of three volumes on Manufactures, presents special reports on the leading industries of the U.S. The report is arranged in the following industrial groups:

• Food and Kindred Products
• Textiles and their products
• Iron and Steel and Their Products
• Lumber and Its Remanufactures
• Leather and Its Finished Products
• Paper and Printing
• Chemicals and Allied Products
• Stone, Clay, and Glass Products
• Metals and Metal Products, Other than Iron and Steel
• Vehicles for Land Transportation
• Railroad Repair Shops