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FKANCE

The aunual jji'oductioii of wine and eider appears as follows : —

Wine produced

Wine Import, |

Wine Export,

Cider pro-

Year

Under Vines,

thousands of

thousands of

thousand.s of

duced 1,000's

acres

gallons 1 628,386

gallons

gallons

ot gallons

. 1835

4,916,790

170,040

57,2.39

4.89,010

189-3

4,316,090

592,196

139,832

37,230

526,910

1900

3,974,970

1,441,330

114,760

41,010

647,000

1909

4,013,490

1,197,810

136,048

50,160

214,610

1910

, 4,644,147

630,806

175,967

.50,995

271,328

1911

4,824,702

990,978

207,098

24,507

493,678

1912

3,877.880

1.340,768

—

349,350

In 1911 there were 1,522,192 vine-growers returned and the vintage wa.5 valued at 1,331,785,144 francs (53,271,405/.).

The value of the crop of chestnuts, walnuts, olives, eider-ai)ples, plums, and mulberry leaves was estimated in 1910 at 187,419,040 francs (7,496,761/.).

On December 31, 1911, the numbers of farm animals were: Horses, 3,236,110 ; mules, 194,040 ; asses, 360,950 ; cattle, 14,552,430 ; sheep and lambs, 16,425,330; pigs, 6,719,570 ; goats, 1,424,180.

Silk culture, with Government encouragement {'primes), is carried on in 24 departments of France— most extensively in Gard, Drome, Ardeche, and Vaucluse.

Silk production for 3 years : —

Year

J1910 !l911 •1912

Number of producers

114,283

102,605

99,360

Quantities of

et;gs put into

incubation

25 grains 178,739 141,724 132,-334

Total production

Kilogs. 4,269,709 5.109,426 6,233,942

Average yield in

fresh Cocoons

from 25 grams of

eggs

Kilogs. 23-890 36-050 47 030

II. Mining and Metals.

In France there were in 1910, 557 mines (out of 1,483 conceded mines) in work, with 223,969 workers, including women and children. The annual yield of all the conceded mines was valued at 675,198,405 francs (26,807,936/.), as against 13,884,630/. in 1894. The output of non- conceded mines in 1910 was valued at 7,670,907 francs (306,836/.).

The following are statistics of the leading mineral and metal products of conceded mines, in metric tons: —

1

Year '

Coal and lignite Metric Tons

Iron Ore Metric Tons

Pig Iron

Finished Iron and Steel

Worked Steel

Metric Tons

Metric Tonf

Metric Ton

1908

37,384,384

9,428,591

3,400,771

560,200

1,852,000

1909

37,840,086

11,381,485

3,573,848

558,000

2,040,000

1910

38,349,942

14,046,982

4,038,497

526,000

2,323,500

1911

39,229,591

16,000,000

4,426,469

—

3,837,052

19121

41,308,580

—

4,826,553

4,403,688

i Provisional.

In 1910 there >verc 47 smelting works in activity, with 117 blast furnaces.