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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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The following table shows the area and yield of the chief crops for S years : —

Acreage (hectares)

Produce (ton*)

Crop

1918 1919

1918

1919

IMO

Wheat.

154.154 140,013

241,885

258,792

ttye

585,615

Barley.

1 v *i ?'

Ifi3,501

•251,524

889,761

Oat*

814,1)70

1,111,730

1,024,757

Mixed corn.

263,713

375,333

47.\749

4 45,583

Legumiii'iu:- Potatoes

58.3)0

1.8SJ

2.111.213

i.«7:

Roots^.

3,50!-.

Hay*.

4,300,969

i I'eas, beans, and vetches. * dngar-beet and fodder-roots. s And fodder plant*.

The value of all crops was estimated in 1917 at 1,474 million kronor, in 1918 at 2,401 million kronor, and in 1919 at 2,145 million kronor. On June 1, 1919, the live stock was as follows: Horses, 715,681 ; head of cattle, 2,550,828; sheep and lambs, 1,563,654; pigs, 716,783.

II. Mines and Minei-.a

Mining bus !>een from time immemorial the IeadiiiLr industry of Sweden, which was the biggest producer of iron in Europe until the use of coal for the manufacture of pig-iron revolutionized that industry. The lack of fossil fuel is the reason why at present mining in Lapp] and merely concerns itself with the raw products, though experiments made in recent years have carried the problem of electric pioduction of iron ore a good step forward. The mining of ore from the ore-fields of central Sweden has become one of the biggest export industries of the country. There were raised in the year 1919, throughout the Kingdom, 4,981,110 tons of iron ore. The pig-iron produced amounted in 1918 to 761,822 tons, and in 1919 to 493,701 tons ; the bar iron 426,473 tons in 1918, and 381,541 tons in 1919. Of iron ore in 1917. 5,818,498 tons, in 1918, 4,463,760 tons, and in 1919, 2,418,989 tons were exported ; of pig-iron, 234,923 iu 1917, 181,710 in 1918, and 81,573 in 1919. There were also raised in 1919, 1,671 tons of silver and lead ore, 7,279 tons of copper ore, 49,451 tons of zinc ore, 12,278 tons of manganese ore, and 108,770 tons of sulphur pyrites. The gold pro- duced amounted to 21 '552 kilograms, the silver to 620, the lead to 827,448, the copper to 3,558,292, the zinc to 2,320,538. There are not inconsiderable veins of coal in the southern parts of Sweden, giving 429,267 tons of coal in 1919. In 1919 there were 45,108 persons (4,067 young people under 18) engaged in mining.

III. Industries.

The industries of Sweden are spread fairly well over the whole country. The mining of iron ore has reached its highest perfection north of the Polar circle, and the most important sawmills are located along the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia. The production of iron and steel has taken place in central Sweden since the earliest times in Swedish history ; pig iron is produced chiefly in Sandviken, Domnarvet, Uddeholm, and Fagersta. Cream separators, lighthouse apparatus, telephone supplies, motors, and many kinds of electrical machinery are among the highly specialised products