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Wheat
l-.)!, -'ft:. 771
20«,2«'.0,2-i".)
207,223,727
1«5S,8,'>4,711
Hour, wlieat. and rvo .
fO,f,7.S,2J4
113,093.183
8«?,494,CSI
25,103,209
Uyo
^•2,117, mi
29,843,'>t»8
01,918,415
85,190,098
liarlcy .
f.:>.:«4,739
45, 51 J, 402
72,128,278
M, 067,603
Oats
3.s.7i'8,<VJ6
S1,352,41S
41,441 807
83,t.tW,80:.
Pofato.fldur .
s. 775,043
2J,200,817
8,322,968
20,091,485
liuckwlicaf
'J,Cn'7,7'-'3
082,449
2,.S00,2:»9
789.582
Flax
sr,7,9r,b
23.430,199
1,010,021
29.032,727
Beetroot
777,17>«
3,21»4,940
>y-M>,:-24
3,042,«»71
I>:lhs, slirulis and tre. .•,
l.',7ltl,0y4
l'.,?30,483
2/>3iy ••.18
15,1M,141
V. . lubles - - . .
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64,8n0.00fJ
6,<XK).<J00
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3,l,s8,000
•»,h46,000
2,:.46,«>00
II. Mixing and M.\nupacturk.s.
A few coal mines are found in the province of Limbur^' ; most of them belong to the State. The quantity of coal extracted in 1911 wa.s 1,476,580 metric tons, valued at 9,488,000 gl. ; clear revenue of the State mines, 218,437 gl.
There are no ofHcial returns of all the manufacturing industries. Acrording. to the last reports there were, in 1911: 434 distilierics, 11 .stigar refineries, 27 l»eet-sugar refineries, 34 salt works, 437 breweries and G9 vinegar mami- factf »i ies.
III. FlSl!KllIK.S.
In 1910, 5,370 vessels of all kinds were engaged in the fisheries, with flews numbering about 20,461. The jiioduce of the honing fi:>hery in the Xorlli Sea was valuL-d at 11,049,693 guilders in 1911. The quantity of oysters producol in 191 1 amounted to 3,256,691 kilos.
Commerce.
The Netherlands is a free-trading jountiy. A few dutns are levied, I'Ut they have only a h.^cal, not a protectionist character.
Treaties of coinniereo and imvi^^ation Ketwccn tin- Nithcrlaiuls and Great liritain (some of them having ^Kcial reference to the colonies) were hi^rned in 1824, 18:^<7, l.'^61, ISoO, and 1889, providing, amongst other matters, for tlio 'most favoured nation' trentment, ter- minable on a year's notice.
No official returns are kept of the value of the general trade, but only • if the weight of the goods. In 1872 the total imports were t-stimated at 6,451 million kilogrammes, and the exports at 2,956 millions ; while in 1911 the former were .^0,865 million kilogrammes, ami the latter 38,372 millions, exolusive of goods in tran>it.
The following are the estimates of lhi> imiK>rt.s for home consumption and the exports of home produce for five years : —
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