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branch represents about 40 % of the days’ work, while Stavanger
has its speciality in the tinning of food-products. Outside the
industrial centres mentioned here, the factories mostly group
themselves around Skedsmo (Lillestrøm), Larvik, Kristiansand
and Arendal. The aggregate number of establishments in all the
above-mentioned districts in the year 1895 represented about
50 % of the entire number of establishments in the country,
while the number of days work in the same was about 75 %
of the whole number.

The following diagram shows the distribution of industrial
activity between south-eastern Norway (i. e. Kristiania and the
counties Smaalenene, Akershus, Hedemarken, Kristians, Buskerud,
Jarlsberg-Larvik and Bratsberg) and north-western Norway (i. e. Bergen
and the remaining counties).


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South-eastern Norway.
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North-western Norway.









B. INDUSTRY AS CARRIED ON BY INDIVIDUAL ARTISANS.



Of the various kinds of artisans, the most numerous according
to the census of 1891, were:
        a. Among the independent artisans:
1. Shoemakers .... 8582 of whom in the country districts 6635
2. Joiners....... 6444 -        — -        »        —        —4267
3. Tailors . ...... 4577 -        — -        »        —        —3650
4. Smiths ....... 2620 -        — -        »        —        —2154


[[** Tabell forts. neste side]]

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