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-336 vii. manufacturing industries.
Table 71. Imports and Exports of Articles of Food and Consumption.
Imports. Value in thousands of kronor Export s. Value kro in thousands of aor Excess of
Annually Produce of
agriculture and fishing Colonial produce other
commodities Total Produce of
agriculture and fishing Colonial produce Other
commodities Total imports,
thousands of kr
1871-75 . 36 876 37101 10 950 84 927 43 759 72 492 44 323 40 604
1876—80 . 55 593 44 076 8 939 108 60S 48 846 97 1143 50086 58 522
1881—85 . 62 436 40 604 13 110 116150 47 803 177 2 274 50254 65 896
1886—90 . 46 036 50115 12 151 108 302 58 879 691 3 437 63007 45 295
1891—95 . 50 304 47 688 12 071 110 063 74 480 1136 1203 76 819 33 244
1896—00 . 61224 40 952 17 073 119 249 53 362 301 1375 55 038 64 211
1901-05 . 84 462 39 260 20 702 144424 46 884 468 2 509 49861 95463
1906—10 . 79 880 44 759 21031 145 670 52 894 568 2 739 56201 89 469
1910 . . . 77 121 47 579 23 216 147 916 61 642 462 2145 64 249 83 667
1911 . . . 69 450 59 479 24 301 153230 78 322 938 1958 81218 72012
1912 . . . 91 720 60 306 26 328 178354 88 404 752 1603 90 759 87 595
1913. . . 94116 60 086 26 845 181 047 84 483 686 1652 86 821 94 226
The dairy-farming industry has already been dealt with in the previous
pages.
A survey of the imports and exports of Sweden, of articles belonging
to this group, is given in Table 71 above.
Sweden is, therefore, obliged constantly to purchase articles of food, on
a considerably larger scale than it can export the same articles. The
amount of the difference is shown by the last column of Table 71 above.
Even if we deduct what is called colonial produce, the most important of
which is coffee — of which, in 1906—10, the imports amounted on an
average to 32 million kronor annually, and in 1913 to 39-4 million kronor
— there is still a considerable excess of imports. This, it is true, is
diminished by the export-excess of living cattle, but, on the other hand, is
increased to a still higher degree by a very great excess of imports for
cattle-fodder, which, in 1913, amounted to about 30 million kronor.
Flour Mills.
In all parts of Sweden there are numerous mills, usually rather small,
to which the people of the neighbourhood take their corn to be ground.
These mills are, as a rule, driven by the waterfalls along the streams and
rivers in which Sweden abounds. It is only along the coasts and in a
few provinces, such as Skåne and -Västergötland, which have large
expanses of flat country, that windmills are found, owing to the dearth of water
falls. In spite of the improved construction of both water motors and
wind motors, whereby the mills have been enabled to utilize the forces of
nature to better effect, steam has gradually made its way into the mill
industry, and to some extent modified its character: for steam mills
can be erected anywhere, even in large commercial centres, where the mill
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