PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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The number of domestic animals in Germany on December 2, 1907, was : —

States

Horses

Cattle Sheep

Swine Goats

Prussia ....

Bavaria ....

Saxouy ....

Alsace-Lorraine

Wiirttemberg.

Baden ....

Other States .

3,040,304 392,091 171,715 138,077 115,352 75,846 405,662

12,011,584 i 5,408,867

3,725,430 735,113

731,528 66,120

544,664 67,980

1,073,122 278,337

673,146 52,020

1,871,070 1,095,273

15,095,854 ! 2,235,529 2,056,222 308,150 744,517 144,858 502,443 63,670 537,185 88,201 558,278 119,821 2,652,033 573,741

Total, 1907 . Total, 1912 .

4,345,047 1 20,630,544 7,703,710 4,516,297 ; 20,158,738 5,787,848

22,146,532 3,533,970 21,885,073 ; 3,883,971

II. Forestry.

Forestry in Germany is an industry of gi-eat importance, conducted under the care of the State on scientific methods. The forest area of the Empire is put at 34,569,800 acres, of which crown forests occupy 675,540 acres; State and partly State forests, 11,015,910 acres ; communal forests, 5,577,470 acres; private forests, 16,130,000 acres, and forests belontring to various associations or foundations, 1,277,560 acres. Of the whole forest area about one-third (11,225,660 acres) is under foliage trees, oak, birch, ash. beech, &c., and two-thirds (23,344,240 acres) bear pine, larch, red and white fir, &c. The forests yield, according to the latest report, 26,183,410 cubic yards ol timber and 23,348,640 of firewood.

III. Mining.

The great bulk of the minerals raised in Germany is produced in Prussia where the chief mining districts are Westphalia, Rhenish Prussia, and Silesia, tor coal and iron, the Harz for silver and copper, and Silesia for zinc. Saxony has coal, iron, and silver mines ; Lorraine rich coal and iron ore fields ; and the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg rich iron ore fields.

The (|uantities of the principal minerals raised are as follows :—

1907

Coal Lignite . Iron ore Zinc ore Lead ore Copper ore Rock Salt Potassic salt . Otherproducts

Metric Tons 1143,185,691

62,546,671 ' 27,697,128 ! 698,425 ' 147,272 j 771,227 I 1,285,138 5,749,368 534,298

1908

1909

Metric Tons '

147,671,149

67,615,200

24,278,151

706,441,

156,861

727,384

1,331,984

6,099,022

552,351;

Metric Tons

148,788,050

68,657,606

25,504,464

723,566

159,853

798,618

1,369,805!

7,042,034

•528,664

1910 j

Metric Tons [

152,827,777:

69,547,299

28,709,700

718,316

148,497

925,957

],424,0j63!

8,311,6711

554,049i

1911

Metric Tons

160,747,580

73,760,867

29,879,361

699,970

140,154

868,600

1,436,492

9,606,876

561,426

The total value of the minerals raised in Germany and Luxemburg was in 1908, 1,971 million marks; in 1909, 1,980 million marks-; in 1910, 2,009

million marks ; in 1911, 2,086 million marks.