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manufacture of beet-sugar. 339
Table 73. Margarine (acc. to the official statistics).
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Annually Manufacture kg Cost ol production ore pr kg Import kg Export kg Consumption kg
1886-90 ......... 216 377 93 543 375 5 696 754 056
1891-95 ......... 1 840 745 84 791910 52 494 2 580161
1896—00 ......... 6 122 913 83 1 185 930 93 975 7 214 868
1901-05 ......... 12 503 813 107 55 410 222 786 12 336 437
1906-10 ......... 14 237 920 116 40 284 130 364 14 147 840
1910........... 16 337 418 118 128 906 91909 16 374 415
1911........... 19 062 467 95 173 990 41235 19 195 212
1912........... 22 887 787 107 147 829 22 141 23 013 475
According to the Royal Regulation of July 1, 1898, which has since
undergone several alterations, the manufacture of margarine is now under the
superintendence in every factory of a Comptroller, specially appointed by the
governments of the respective läns, but, on the other hand, there is no security that
imported margarine is manufactured under any kind of control; this fact,
nowadays, since the import has almost come to an end, is a matter of less
importance than it formerly was. The sale of margarine is also subjected to certain
regulations, in order that the article may not be taken as, or employed for the
adulteration of, natural butter. Margarine-cheese must be coloured red exteriorly,
and not less than 5 % of its fatty constituents must consist of sesam oil.
In this connection it may be mentioned that, in 1911, the manufacture in
Sweden of "premier jus" amounted to 566 844 kg, while 2 816 979 kg were
imported; the corresponding figures for oleo-margarine were 1 409 908 and
336 805 kg, while of 9 591 742 kg imported cocoa-nut oil, 8 127 916 kg, or
85 %, were employed for the manufacture of vegetable margarine. 1
Since 1912, there has existed in Kalmar a factory for the purification of
cocoa-nut oil and palm-kernel oil for the manufacture of margarine.
Manufacture of Beet-Sugar.
As far back as between 1830 and 1840, attempts were made in Sweden
to manufacture beet-sugar, but the factories then started soon had to be
closed down, as the percentage of sugar extracted was too small. Though
experiments were renewed from time to time, especially in the beginning
of the seventies, the industry cannot be said to have really taken firm
root in Sweden until the first half of the following decade.
In 1913, there were 24 factories making beet-sugar in Sweden, of which
one was in Gottland, one in Öland, one in each of the Läns of Blekinge,
Östergötland, Västergötland, and Halland, and the rest in Skåne. Of the
latter, three were so-called juice-stations (see below). The Swedish sugar
factories, as regards technical equipment, are fully abreast of the times;
the larger of them are capable of working up as much as 1 000 tons of beet
1 Some of the figures in this section are not in full agreement with those of the
official statistics, as the latter are somewhat incomplete. The correct figures have been
gained from reports, obtained direct from the margarine factories by the Committee which was
appointed by the Board of Trade, in the spring of 1911, for the purpose of drawing up
proposals for alterations in the duty on margarine and its raw materials.
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