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by-trades connected with forestry.

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rise or fall. It may be pointed out, however, that in the case of several
kinds of timber, especially planehettes and other sawn goods of smaller
dimensions, the rise of låte has been greater than for red wood battens.

The diagram illustrates the changes’ in price from another point
of view, as it shows the variations w the average price of the exports,
actually existing. In its movements up and clown, this average price can
present differences from those distinguishing a special kind of wood goods,
even if, as is the case with the 3rds red wood battens, they may be
considered as belonging to the leading specifications. If, for example, there
is a diminution in the available quantity of sorts of timber of larger
dimensions and of the best quality, the average price of (he actual exports
can remain constant or even fall, although, at the same time, the market
prices of the different kinds of timber rise.

The import of unwrought timber (when the timber floated from Norway
is not taken in acount) is insignificant in comparison to the export
(compare Table 34) but, on the whole, it is increasing. Its value, in 19Jl2,
amounted to 19 051 000 kronor, and the quantity was about 515 000
cub. meters.

The principal sorts of imported timber of native hinds of ivood are
timber and spars of different dimensions, and fuel-wood, especially birch,
which comes almost exclusively from Finland. Aspen wood (for the
manufacture of matches) comes principally from Russia. Unwrought foreign
kinds of ivood are also imported (in 1912 the value amounted to 525 000

kronor), of which the greater part comes via England and Germany.

By-trades connected with Forestry,

Sweden’s vast forests and highly developed timber trade give ample
opportunity to a number of by-trades, but as it is generally the tendency
of the Swedes to overlook small gains, such is the case here too. It is
true that, of låte, these products of the forests have been gleaned far more
thoroughly than before, but a lot of waste-timber is still left to rot in the
forests of the country, and many a by-trade connected with forestry has
not yet been started or only leads a languishing life.

Concerning Wood-Pulp manufacture see the Section Timberware
Industry below.

The most important of the, so to say, lesser industries of forestry is
without doubt the manufacture of charcoal, a subject which is thoroughly
dealt with in the following, under the heading of Mining. Nothing more
need be pointed out here than that, of låte years, a great number of
sawmills have carried on the manufacture of charcoal on a large scale, with
the waste timber from the mills as raw material. The burning-process is
carried out either in special charring kilns, or by burning in stacks. (Sw.
milor.) The letter method is, too, one that has been used in forest-districts
since ancient times.

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