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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY*

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IV. FI8HBBIES.

In 1911, 701 boats, with an aggregate crew of 6,83 sea fishing in the North Sea. In 1918, the yield of tl rained at 13,465,600 mirk*, an I the Baltic fisheries,

were engaged in deep- Sea fisheries was JO marks.

V. MAytTFACTTEM.

The chief seats of the German iron manufacture are in Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony. Steel is made in Rhenish Prussia. Saxony is the leading State in the production of textiles, but Westphalia and Silesia also produce linen; Wurttemberg, Baden, and Bavaria produce cotton goods. Woollens are manufactured in several Prussian provisoes, aho in Saxony and Bavaria ; silk in Rhenish Prussia, and Baden. Beetroot sugar is an important manu- facture in Prussia, Brunswick, Anhalt, and Bavaria, kc. ; glass, porcelain, and earthenware in Silesia, Thuringia, Bavaria, and Saxony ; clocks and wooden ware in Wurttemberg and Bavaria ; and beer in Bavaria, Prussia, Saxony, Baden, Hamburg, Bremen, ice.

The following are the statistics of the beetroot sugar manufacture in Germany.

Tears

beginning 1 U|M

191-V-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-90

N ■:•:.' ear at

Factories

312 807 Mg

Bcc'r >■■•• mm I in Metric To::?

9,570,777

• ■;:•/'■ 1

8,709,011

Production in Metric Tom ; £°- °* *«••

I Beetroot to

1 ; p roduce 1 Kg.

fUvSogu i MolatM* I of Sugar

1,561,608 1,566,255 1.846,101

wifim

mjtn nCsco

m.OSI

6-18

589

In 1916-17 the amount of beetroot used was 6,560,097 metric tons; in 1917-18, 6,437,309 metric tons.

The following table shows the quantity of beer (in thousands of hecto- litres, 1 hectolitre = 22 gallons) brewed in Germany in the Beer-excise district (Brausteucrgtbiet), which includes all the States of the Zollgebiet, except Bavaria, Wurttemberg, and Baden : —

Voir

1913 1914 1915 1916

mi

Beer Excise District

40,974 84,24V 25.6<K» V.<,6»3

i3*Tim. Wurttemberg

19,084

17,020

11,167

4.. 18 IMS

Badsa

2,363

Touli

r ?200 i.9,373

36,835

1 Ineli: I.orrsin*

The total number of active breweries in the Beer-excise district was in 1913. 3,786; in 1914, 3,602; in 1915, 2,900; in 1916, 2,418; in 1917,