BAVARIA

909

Since January 1, 1912, the direct taxes are income-tax, trade-tax, house- tax and land-tax. The estimates of the extraordinary budget for each of the years 1912 and 1913 balanced at 3,120,163Z.

Debt, December 31, 1910, 118,887,902^., 94,302,194Z. being railway debt. Gross receipts from the State railways (estimates for 1912 and 1913), 15,416,640?. ; net receipts, l,500,0OOZ.

Army, — The Bavarian army, though forming an integral part of the German army, is in time of peace under the command of the King of Bavaria, and has its own administration. The military supplies, though voted by the Bavarian Parliament, must bear a fixed proportion to the amount voted for the rest of Germany by the Reichstag. The Bavarian troops form the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Bavarian army-corps, not numbered consecutively with the other German army-corps ; and there are certain differences in the matter of uniform permitted to the Bavarian troops. The administration of the fortresses in Bavaria is also in the hands of the Bavarian Government during

peace

The peace strength of the Bavarian army is between 72,000 and 73,000

men.

Production and Industry.— Of the total area, nearly one- half is under cultivation, one-sixth under grass, and one-third under forests.

The areas under the chief crops, and the yield in 1911, were as follows : —

Area, i Metric i acres ' Tons

Area, acres

Metric Tons

Wheat 717,652 Rye 1,376,387 Summer-barley ' 923,700

431,397

764,852 671,269

Oats

Potatoes

Hay

1,280,507

924,370

3,193,180

741,151 2,510,811 4,628,075

Vines, 51,425 acres, yielding 15,697,242 gallons; 43,437 acres under hops yielded 4,800 metric tons.

In 1911 the output of coal was 2,311,637 metric tons, iron ore, 375,409 tons, pig iron, 165,684 tons, cast iron wares, 171,977 tons, sulphuric acid, 170,039 tons.

The quantity of beer brewed in 1911 was 432,116,080 gallons. In 1910-11, the distilleries produced 3,579,796 gallons of alcohol.

Strikes and lockouts in 1910 and 1911 : —

Number

Workmen affected

Results.

Entirely successful

Partially

successful

Unsuc- cessful

Strilces (1910)

(1911)

Lockouts (1910)

(1911)

2(30

265

76

18

18,968

19,439

19,71-2

5,335

66 68

7 8

131

105

57

2

63

92

12

3

British Minister Resident. — Sir V. Corbett, K.C.V.O. British Consuls. — Lucien Buchmann (Munich) ; S. Ehrenbacher (Nurem- berg).

British Vice-Consul. — Arthur Abbott (Munich).

References.

Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Konigsreichs Bayeru. Munich. Statistisches Jahrbuch fiir das Konigreich Bayern. Munich.

Baedeker's Southern Germany. 10th ed. Leipzig, 1907.