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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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III. Manufactures.

The total uuniber ul' industrial establishments in France in 1896 was as follows : —

Industries

Establishments

yteani engines

Horse-power

Tissues and clothing

6.627

7,317

279,506

Metals ....

4,926

8,135

226,689

Mines and quarries

3,065

5,500

179,6.v2

Foods ....

9,141

10,729

136,127 1

Buildings

6,922

7,982

169,272

Agriculture

15,239

18,743

111,123

Chemical and tanning.

3,123

3,788

59,850

Paper, printing, furni-

ture, &c.

3,493

3,847

55,099

State services. Total

435

1,306

45,370 ,

52,971

67,347

1,262,688

Textile Indiidrics. — In 1896 the numbers of factories for silk, cotton, woollen, and other manufactures were : silk, for unwinding cocoons, 221 with 10,468 pans; carding and combing, 37 with 692 machines ; throwing, 708 with 1,624,530 spindles, &c. ; for spinning, 19 with 150,000 spindles ; for weaving, 745 with 28,270 power looms and 39, 165 hand-looms; cotton, for carding, &:c., 46 with 186 machines ; for spinning 275 with 4,024,811 spindles ; wool, for carding 229 with 351 machines ; for spinning, 837 with 3,173,274 spindles; for carpet weaving, 82 with 5,593 looms; for other woollen goods, 1,043 with 11,714 power looms and 16,604 hand looms ; for various manufactures of cotton, Hax or hemp, 2,112 factories, and for mixed tissues, 990 factories ; for spinning hemp, flax, or jute, &c., 103 factories.

The values of the yearly imports and exports of woollens and silks in millions of francs are seen from the subjoined table : —

WooUeus

Silks

Years

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orts

Exports

Imports

Exports

Yarn

Cloth

Yarn

Cloth

Tissues

Tissues

224-5 223-5 270-8 247-0 270-9

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

12-5

9-8 13-6 15-4 10-8

50-2 43-6 41-9 45-1 40-0

21-0 18-5 31-1 29-6 24-1

278-9 242-3 323-1 294-1 265-5

51-0 41-9 50-2 50-3 520

Sugar. — In 1896-97 there were 358 sugar works, employing regularly 43,654 men, 3,597 women, and 2,556 children, with occasionally about 8,000 other workpeople. The yield of sugar during the last 12 years (expressed in thousands of kilogrammes of refined sugar) was : —