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GERMAN EMPIRE : — WURTTEMBERG
Branches of Expenditure
1911
Civil List
Appanages and Dowries
National Debt — Interest and Sinlving Fund . Annuities, &c. . . . . .
Pensions — Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military.
Others
Privy Council, «fcc
Ministry of Justice
,, Foreign Affairs . . . ,
,, the Interior
,, "Worship and Education.
,, Final ce
Parliament, Expenses of
General Purposes Fund
German Empire — Matricular contribution to .
Postage
Increase in Salaries in the Civil Service
Total Expenditure
1912
Marks
Marks
2,045,896
2,045,896
75,874
75,874
25,904.720
27,375,001
623,907
622,650
10,308,105
11,160,145
1,132,096
1,105,256
102,780
102,7tO
6,703,^39
6,799,239
202,863
202,863
12,722,092
12,814,344
20,564,736
21,579,975
6,759,443
6,714,443
442,940
442,940
50,000
50,000
17,057,025
17,237,025
1,000.000
1,000,000
8,190,305
3,219,735
108,886,630
112,568,166
(£5,444,331)
(£.^,628,408)
Public debt, 30,425,976/., divided into the general debt and the railway debt. The latter amounted to 28,924, 116Z. on April 1, 1911.
Army. — The troops of Wiirttemberg form the 13 corps of the German army (q.v.). Their strength on a peace-footing is about 24,454.
Industry. — Wiirttemberg is primarily an agricultural State, and 2,948,900 acres, or 64 per cent, of the entire area, are under cultivation, and 1,482,240 acres, or 31 per cent., under forest.
Areas under the principal crops and yiel d in metric tons in 1911 : —
1911 Acres Yield, tons
Wheat Bye . Barley
Spelt,
104,621
92,652
250,287
339.220
71,166
51,744
177,971
173,869
Oats . Potatoes Hay . Hops .
879,867
252.315
1,031,587
7.859
229,314
755,170
1,834,160
2.158
In 1912, wheat, spelt, and rye produced 346,000 tons, barley 171,000 ; oats, 195,700 ; potatoes, 1,297,200 ; hops, 22,260 (all preliminary figures).
Vines, 37,603 acres, yield 3,643,134 gallons of wme. In 1910 were pro- duced 87,686,676 gallons of beer. The total value of the minerals raised in 1910 was 218,350Z. There are active iron foundries and salt works.
BHHsh Minister.-Siv V. Corbett, K.C.V.O. (residing at ^Inr.ich).
Consul at Stuttgart.— J. H. H. Gastrell.
Eeferences.
The following publications of the Royal Statistical Landesamt, Stuttgart : W^j^i:ttem- bergische TahrbloLr fiir Stati.stik und Landeskunde Mitte ungeu des K ftat^t.schen Landesamts Das Konigreich Wiirttemberg : Eine Besclireibung von Land, Volk und Staat 3 Bitncle, Stuttgart, 1 882-1^86. Das Konigreich Wi;rtten|berg: Eine Beschreibimg nach kreiscn Oberamtern, und Gemeinden : 4 Bande, <tuttgart, 1904. Oberamts- beShrSSn, nVue Folge Kartenwerk des Konigreichs Wiirttemberg. Haiiptfinanzetat SerSShs Wiirttemberg. The new series of «' Wiirtten>bergische Jahrbucher contains Chronicle and Necrology for the past year, and c^P'^.^l'^t^^f PV^^l'f.f '^^ official and other, relating to the kingdom, in addition to much historical and .statistical information concerning the population and products of Jft urttemberg.
Baedeker's Southern Germany. lOtli ed. Leipzig, 190/ .
