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strength is 118,500 men and comprises 71,836 rifles, 228 field and 36 heavy juris. The additional numbers available on mobilisation amount to 282,000 men.

The Norwegian in fan try is armed with the Krag-Jorgensen rifle of 6 '5 mm. r/he field artillery has Erhardt Q.F. guns of 7 5 cm.

The budget of the army for 1920-21 is 2,307,000*.

Navy.

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There are also 20 gunboats, 4 destroyers, 26 torpedo boats, 4 submarines and 10 minelayers.

The only modern vessels in the Norwegian navy are 8 first-class torpedo boats and 10 mine la

The navy numbers about 190 officers on active service and about 160 in the reserve, and about 1,000 petty officers and seamen on permanent engagement. AH seafaring men between the ages of twenty and forty-four are enrolled on the lists of the active fleet, and are liable to the maritime conscription. The conscripts (about 1,000) have to go through a training of at least 6 months.

Production and Industry.

I. Agriculture.

As Norway is a barren and mountainous country, there is little oppor- tunity for agriculture. The arable soil is found in comparatively narrow strips, gathered in deep and narrow valleys and around fjords and lakes. Large continuous tracts fit for cultivation do not exist. Of the total area, 747 per cent, is unproductive, 21 "9 per cent, forest, and 3 4 per cent, under cultivation. On January 1, 1918, there were 216,545 real estates separately registered, and the number of farms was 261,484. The 241,484 farms were classified as follows according to their cultivated area : —

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19,495

162,608

64,046

15,070

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261,484

The 19,495 farms without cultivated area are most of them special estates of gardens, and not cultivated meadow land.

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