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 1138 NORWAY

The acreage and products of the principal crops for 3 years were as follows :

Crops

Acreage

Produce (quarters)

1917

1918

1919

1917

191S

132,056 677,250 1.723,461 122.691 142.0S1 31,058.8381

1919

Wheat Barley Oats. Rye. Mixed Corn Potatoes .-

19,469

115,040

355,220

57,482

16,843

144,947

40,970

156,002

343,087

36,!; 63

29.495

132,587

40,941 156,060 342,837

36,661

29,482 132,479

52,285

462,917

1,767,308

140,500

79,434

42,586,097!

119,811 607,245 1,570,069 119,145 137,878 40,667,6001

Hay.

—

—

—

2,526,356 2

1,685,7012

1,715,3632

1 Bushels.

2 Tons.

On June 20, 1918, the country possessed live stock as follows : — Horses, 221,062 ; cattle, 1,049,642 ; sheep, 1,207,923 ; goats, 203,099 ; swine, 215,305.

The value of cereals imported (including flour) was 172,577,500 kroner in 1919 ; the principal articles being rye, wheat, maize, barley, wheat and rye- flour. The imports of animal products amounted to 150,843,400 kroner in 1919, and their exports to 204,546,800 kroner in 1919.

II. Forestry.

The forests and the fisheries are the two chief natural sources of wealth. The total area covered with forests is estimated at 27,434 square miles, of which 75 per cent, is under pine trees. The State forests occupy about 3,259 squaro miles. The value of unwrought or partly wrought timber exported from Norway in 1918 and 1919 was respectively 67,496,000 and 77,840,900 kroner, and of wrought timber (mostly wood pulp) 133,616,700 in 1918, and 113,048,100 kroner in 1919.

III. Mines and Minerals.

The pyrite is the most important mineral product for both its sulphur and copper content. Iron-ore deposits occur in many places, but there is a shortage of coal for smelting. The total value of mineral products in 1917 was 42,824,000 kroner (10,831,000 in 1907) ; of furnace products, 17,030,000 kroner (3,135,000 in 1907). The chief mineral products are silver, 980,000 kroner in 1917(560,000 in 1907); copper ore, 4,905,000 kroner; pyrites, 20,655,000 kroner ; iron ore, 8,380,000 kroner; felspar, 188,000 kroner (512,000 in 1907); nickel ore, 2,250,000 kroner. Of the smelting products in 1917, silver was valued at 920,000 kroner; copper, 7,530,000 kroner: nickel, 2,650,000 kroner. At the end of 1917 there existed about 106 mining establishments employing 8,518 workpeople, and 13 smelting furnaces with 804 workpeople.

IV. Fisheries.

Fish and fish-products comprise about a third of Norway's total annua export values. The number of persons in 1917 engaged in cod fishery was 69,888 ; in summer-herring fishery, 12,989 ; and in mackerel fishery, 5,517.

The value of the fisheries in kroner in 1917 was cod, 45,712,181 ; herring, 63,905,437 ; mackerel, 6,087,040 ; salmon and sea trout, 1,768,213 ; other fisheries, 16,914,952 ; lobsters, 791,391 ; total, 135,179,214.

Other fisheries are the cod and herring fisheries on the coast of Island, and the whale, walrus, seal, and shark fisheries which in 1917 produced a total of about 41,652,000 kroner.