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GERMAN EMPIRE : — WURTTEMBERG

Branches of Expenditure

1911

Civil List

Appanages and Dowries

National Debt — Interest and Sinlving Fund. Annuities, &c. . . . ..

Pensions — Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military.

Others

Privy Council, «fcc

Ministry of Justice

,, Foreign Affairs. . . ,

,, the Interior

,, "Worship and Education.

,, Final ce

Parliament, Expenses of

General Purposes Fund

German Empire — Matricular contribution to.

Postage

Increase in Salaries in the Civil Service

Total Expenditure

1912

Marks

Marks

2,045,896

2,045,896

75,874

75,874

25,904.720

27,375,001

623,907

622,650

10,308,105

11,160,145

1,132,096

1,105,256

102,780

102,7tO

6,703,^39

6,799,239

202,863

202,863

12,722,092

12,814,344

20,564,736

21,579,975

6,759,443

6,714,443

442,940

442,940

50,000

50,000

17,057,025

17,237,025

1,000.000

1,000,000

8,190,305

3,219,735

108,886,630

112,568,166

(£5,444,331)

(£.^,628,408)

Public debt, 30,425,976/., divided into the general debt and the railway debt. The latter amounted to 28,924, 116Z. on April 1, 1911.

Army. — The troops of Wiirttemberg form the 13 corps of the German army (q.v.). Their strength on a peace-footing is about 24,454.

Industry. — Wiirttemberg is primarily an agricultural State, and 2,948,900 acres, or 64 per cent, of the entire area, are under cultivation, and 1,482,240 acres, or 31 per cent., under forest.

Areas under the principal crops and yiel d in metric tons in 1911 : —

1911 Acres Yield, tons

Wheat Bye. Barley

Spelt,

104,621

92,652

250,287

339.220

71,166

51,744

177,971

173,869

Oats. Potatoes Hay. Hops.

879,867

252.315

1,031,587

7.859

229,314

755,170

1,834,160

2.158

In 1912, wheat, spelt, and rye produced 346,000 tons, barley 171,000 ; oats, 195,700 ; potatoes, 1,297,200 ; hops, 22,260 (all preliminary figures).

Vines, 37,603 acres, yield 3,643,134 gallons of wme. In 1910 were pro- duced 87,686,676 gallons of beer. The total value of the minerals raised in 1910 was 218,350Z. There are active iron foundries and salt works.

BHHsh Minister.-Siv V. Corbett, K.C.V.O. (residing at ^Inr.ich).

Consul at Stuttgart.— J. H. H. Gastrell.

Eeferences.

The following publications of the Royal Statistical Landesamt, Stuttgart : W^j^i:ttem- bergische TahrbloLr fiir Stati.stik und Landeskunde Mitte ungeu des K ftat^t.schen Landesamts Das Konigreich Wiirttemberg : Eine Besclireibung von Land, Volk und Staat 3 Bitncle, Stuttgart, 1 882-1^86. Das Konigreich Wi;rtten|berg: Eine Beschreibimg nach kreiscn Oberamtern, und Gemeinden : 4 Bande, bergische Jahrbucher contains Chronicle and Necrology for the past year, and c^P'^.^l'^t^^f PV^^l'f.f '^^ official and other, relating to the kingdom, in addition to much historical and .statistical information concerning the population and products of Jft urttemberg.

Baedeker's Southern Germany. lOtli ed. Leipzig, 190/.