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tobacco.
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The import-duty, according to a resolution adopted by the lliksdag of 1914,
amounts to the following sums per kilogram:
unmanufactured tobacco: stalk......................2 kr.
» » leaf...........2 à 3 »
manufactured j cigars and cigar-cigarettes . . 7 »
» » cigarettes..................5 »
» * cut...........3 "60 »
» j other kinds........2-50 »
The tobacco factories in earlier times were chiefly situated in Stockholm (where
the oldest establishment seems to have been founded in 1 660), Norrköping, Gävle,
and Kristianstad, but they have gradually spread to other towns and even to
country districts. Of the 102 tobacco-factories in Sweden existing in 1912,
41 were in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, the value of the manufactured
tobacco turned out by them amounted to a total of more than 67 % of the
tobacco-manufactures of the country, 23 028 000 kr. Of the 102 factories, 82
were situated in the towns, and 20 in the country districts, chiefly in Skåne.
The cultivation of tobacco, on a scale, worth mentioning, began about 1750,
and in this industry, as in so many others, it was the great Jonas Alströmer
that led the way. About 1770, the tobacco-harvest was estimated at 7 000
quintals, or almost as much as in our own times, for during the last 25 years the
harvests show the following average figures:
Annually Quintals Annually Quintals Annually Quintals
1886—90. . . 10 405 1896-00. . . 7 745 1906-10. . . 9 894
1891—95. . . 10 837 1901-05. . . 10 450 1911 ..... 7 064
The area devoted to the growth of tobacco varies very much. For example,
during the years 1897—1902, it varied between 365 hectares in 1902 and 482
hectares in 1901. At the present time, more than half of all the tobacco grown
in Sweden is obtained from Kristianstad Län, where the tract of country round
Åhus comprises by far the largest area devoted to this plant, although it is
divided into a very large number of small plots. Formerly, much tobacco was
grown in and around a number of towns, Stockholm especially. The average
crop per hectare amounted in 1902 to 16 quintals of air-dried, unsweated tobacco;
Table 77. Survey of the Tobacco-industry in Sweden.
Annually Fac- Production. In Quintals Total production Imports. Quintals
tories Cigars Packet tobacco Roll and cake tobacco Snuff Quintals Value. Thousands of kronor Leaf tobacco Manufac. tobacco
1871—75 . 103 4 698 4159 8 737 28 423 46 017 8 872 31 915 562
1876-80 . 107 5 512 4 825 9 327 32 191 51 855 10 778 35125 1242
1881-85 . 105 4 229 4 780 10 007 32 812 51 828 10 831 32 784 1022
1886-90 92 2 916 2 780 11868 35 084 52 648 10 316 34 206 1071
1891—95 . 91 5011 3 797 10 791 39 331 58 930 11994 34 029 1064
1896-00 . 96 6 940 4 058 8 821 45 847 65 666 15 045 36 604 1737
1901-05 . 113 8 677 3 924 8105 52 418 73124 17 202 40 361 2 381
1906—10 . 108 10879 3 593 6 344 59 811 80 626 21136 41108 3 713
1910. . . 107 11695 3 855 5 90? 62 211 83 668 22 325 42 811 4 569
1911 . . . 108 11127 3 627 5 679 61 291 81724 22 218 45 605 4 804
1912 . . . 102 11186 3 380 5 559 62 939 82 844 23 028 44 966 5 574
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