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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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The Danish fleet is maintained for purijo.se.s of coast-defence. It con- sists of three monitors, Peder Skrctin, Olfert Fischer, and Herluf Trolle, carrying a pair of 9 •4-inch and 4 6-inch guns, a smaller monitoi*, Skjold (launched 1896), with one 9 "4 and three 4*7-incli guns ; three torpedo gun- boats and 20 torpedo boats ; 3 submarines. This is the effective fleet.

It is reinforced by the old battleship Iver Hviifdd, and a small cruiser, the Valkyricn.

A new coast defence battleship is under construction.

Production and Industry.

The soil of Denmark is greatly subdivided, owing partly to the state of the law, which interdicts the union of small farms into larger estates, but encourages, in various ways, the parcelling out of landed propert)', and leaves the tenant entire control of his land so long as the rent is paid.

Of the total area of Denmark 80 per cent, is productive ; about one sixth of the unproductive area is peat bogs. Of the productive area 6 per cent, is forest, and of the remainder less than one half is arable, and the remainder 1)asture and meadows. The area under the chief crops in 1912, and the )»roduction in 1910-1912, were as follows : —

Area

Productiou

Crops

1912

19i0 Bushels

1911 Bushels

191 J

Acres

Bushels

Wheat

101,280

4,408,414

4,378,265

4,328,203

Barley

584,285

21,128,259

18,047,266

20,366,640

Oats.

1,007,347

38,328,314

26.290,587

39,914,039

Rve.

690,022

18,967,614

18,026,204

18,696,564

Mixed grain

—

16,645,267

—

16,593,308

Potatoes

—

29,582,710

—

28,020,323

Beetroot, kc.

75,750

.502,931,842

413,74.3,000

On -Tuly 15, 1910, there were in Denmark proper 535,018 horses, 2,253,982 liead of cattle, 726,829 sheep, 40,257 goats, and 1,467,822 swine In 1881 there were 1,470,078 cattle, and inlS7], 1,238,898.

In 1911 there were exported 28,494 horses, 153,512 head of cattle, 497 sheep and goats.

In 1911 there were in Denmark 27 distilleries (Copenhagen 6), whose output of brandy reduced to 100° amounted to 3,421,547 gallons (15,552,488 litres). In 1911 there were produced 24,494,734 gallons of excisable beer and 34,094,566 gallons (small) beer, not excisable.

In the same year 110,156 tons of beet sugar were produced at 8 sugar factories, and 35,402 tons of margarine and oleomargarine were manufactured at 22 factories.

In the Danish fisheries the total value of the fish caught was in 1909. 692,067Z.; in 1910, 769, 126^.; 1911, 838,697/.