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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.
