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Table 121. Survey of manufactures and imports in the Wool industry.
(A quintal = 197 cwts. A krona - l lO shilling or 0 268 dollar.)
Average for the years Spinneries. Manufactures.1 [-Cloth-factories.-] {+Cloth- factories.+} Manufactures. Imports. Value in thousands of Kronor.
Quintals. Value, In thousands of Kronor. Value, in
thousands of Kronor. Wool. Taru. Textile fabrics. Teifflt Total, i fabrics, i
1866/70................668 I 92 9,569 5,194
1871/75......... 1,642 253 13,613 6,320 3,692 16,118 26,130 61-7
1876/80................3,098 709 10,743 4,486 3,032 16,924 24,442 692
1881/85................6,545 1,2X8 11,880 5,428 3,479 21,804 30,711 710
1886/90................16,136 3,167 12,816 6,874 5,179 22,373 34,426 65-fl
1891/95................22,937 4,276 19,389 4,820 6,511 20,227 31,558 641
1896/00................65,064 16,862 26,765 7,332 10,503 15,800 33,635 47o
In 1900 ..............73,519 20,429 | 28,981 9,859 9,496 13,202 , 32,557 406
England, viz.. Southdown, Shropshiredown, and Oxfordshiredown (especially in
Södermanland, Skåne, and Halland), further Leicester, Dishley, and Cheviot — the litter
especially in Gotland and Norrbotten, — and, finally, the merino breeds
(Öste-götland, Södermanland). According to later observations, it looks as if the Cheviot
breed in Gotland would still further increase, where it has, under otherwise
favourable circumstances, found protection in the old Roma State sheep-farm; jnä
as the long-haired breeds (Oxfordshiredown, etc.) more and more increase and
supplant the white-headed ones (Leicester, Cotsewold, etc.). Among native breeds,
the Gotland sheep on the island of Fårön has begun to attract notice as a breed
in many respects suitable for our country. One circumstance which speaks for
the improvement of the native breed with English and not merino sheep, is that
the latter do not make good mutton.
The stock of native sheep has nevertheless decreased still more. Whilst in
1870 it amounted to 1,600,000, there are now only about 1,260,000, of which
more than 110,000 in the Län of Jönköping. The cause of this decline must be
sought partly in the circumstance that the native wool, from its unevenness and tie
difficulty in obtaining it in larger parcels, is not readily bought by manufacturers,
and that the wool-market is overflooded with foreign and artificial wool (shoddy.
mungo, extract, etc.); and partly in the farmers having inclosed larger space
for dairy purposes, in addition to which the lack of fodder, which often occurs
in certain parts of the kingdom, is a primary reason for slaughtering sheep. For
the encouragement of the b’reeding of native sheep, the State has in recent times
appointed a specialist to give instruction in wool-culture and sheep-farming.
The wool imported, which is admitted free of duty, is brought for the most
part by way of England and Germany, but also via Denmark and Belgium. The
superior sorts of carding-wool originally came from the Cape, Buenos Ayres,
Australia, and Silesia.
A summary of the production value in our wool industry is given
in Table 121. Of all woollen yarn produced in Sweden, the Östergötland
Län alone delivers 35 %, of textile fabrics even 46 The last mentioned
table also gives the value amounts of the imports (for the quantities,
see Table 122). On the whole, all the figures bear witness of a
considerable increase of the manufacture of låte, whilst the imports
nowadays keep about stationary. A pleasing fact is that the imports of
1 The figures for earlier years are very incomplete.
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