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.
