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deals and boards. The export of this kind of timber in 1898,
amounted to 21,160,000 cubic feet, while from 1871 to 1875, the
average was only 10 million cubic feet.
In the above figures representing the export of timber, some
originally Swedish timber is included, which has undergone more
or less manipulation in Norway.
Under the head of wooden goods must next be mentioned
wood-pulp, an industrial product which is of recent origin and of
which, as late as 1875, we only exported 8500 tons, with a value
of kr. 683,000. In 1885 this export had increased to 91,000
tons, in 1895 to 246,000 tons, and in 1898 to 315,000 tons
with a value of 17.3 million kroner. Of this total, 235,000 tons
was moist mechanical pulp (kr. 7,400,000) and 60,000 was dry
chemical pulp (kr. 8,600,000), while dry mechanical and moist
chemical pulp were of less importance. If we leave timber and
fish-products out of consideration, there is no Norwegian article
of exportation which at the present time approaches wood-pulp in
importance.
Turning next to the other large branch of Norway’s exports,
fish-products, we find the aggregate value of those exports in
1898 to have been, as before mentioned, 45 million kroner, to
which may be added one million kroner for tinned goods, which
mostly consist of fish products. The fish exports of the
above-mentioned [[** sjk bindestrek]] year were of about the same amount as the average
of the last 30 years. In the individual years, however, there are
often very great fluctuations, both as regards quantity and price.
Compared with former times, on the other hand, the fishery
exports have made great progress, although, relatively speaking, they
have always been important. The table p. 427 shows the amount
of the Norwegian fishery exports, as far as the most important
articles are concerned, at various times in the course of the last
200 years (for the years before 1815, however, only from the most
important places of export).
It will be seen from the table on page 425, that our
exportation of the products from agriculture and cattle-raising has
advanced rapidly of late, namely, from barely 4 million kroner
annually in the years 1871—75, to 15.7 million kroner in the
year 1898. This increase is especially due to the two articles,
butter and condensed milk, of which the exportation in 1898
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