deals and boards. The export of this kind of timber in 1898
amounted to 21,160,000 cubic feet, while from 1871 to 1875, thè
average was only 10 million cubic feet.
In the above figures representing the export of timber, some
originally Swedish timber is included, which has undergone more
or less manipulation in Norway.
Under the head of wooden goods must next be mentioned
wood-pulp, an industrial product which is of recent origin and of
which, as late as 1875, we only exported 8500 tons, with a value
of kr. 683,000. In 1885 this export had increased to 91,000
tons, m 1895 to 246,000 tons, and in 1898 to 315,000 tons
with a value of 17.3 million - kroner. Of this total, 235,000 tons
was moist mechanical pulp (kr. 7,400,000) and 60,000 was dry
chemical pulp (kr. 8,600,000), while dry mechanical and moist
chemical pulp were of less importance. If we leave timber and
fish-products out of consideration, there is no Norwegian article
of exportation which at the present time approaches wood-pulp in
importance.
Turning next to the other large branch of Norway’s exports,
fish-products, we find the aggregate value of those exports in
1898 to have been, as before mentioned, 45 million kroner, to
which may be added one million kroner for tinned goods, which
mostly consist of fish' products. The fish exports of thè above-
mentioned year were of about the same amount as the average
of the last 30 years. In the individual years, however, there are
often very great fluctuations, both as regards quantity and price.
Compared with former times, on the other hand, the fishery exports
have made great progress, although, relatively speaking, they
have always been important. The table p. 427 shows the amount
of the Norwegian fishery exports, as far as the most important
articles are concerned, at various times in the course of the last
200 years (for the years before 1815, however, only from the most
important places of export).
I t will be seen from the table on page. .425, that our exportation
of the products from, agriculture and cattle-raising has advanced
rapidly of late, namely, from barely 4 million kroner
annually in the years 1871—75, to 15.7 million kroner in the
year 1898. This increase is especially due to the two articles,
butter and condensed milk, of which the exportation in 1898
Year (average)
É i n .
Klipfisk Stockfish Herring
(salted)
Fish-oil Roe
Thousand Thousand
Tons
gallons gallons gallons
About 1695 1)-. . . K fiH aboilt 4,300 | 8) 418 .163 41
m 1731 *) . . . . about 3,900 990 abt. 154 84.
1756—602) . . . . . gSt about 9,100 | 3,784 abt. 356 205
Abont 17802) . . . . 9,400 946 389 167
- — 18052)* IHHS H E 17,500 abt 1,320 . 915 ‘ 510
1815—19.......................... . ' 1,500 I 7,800 ' 3,982 491 • 218
1820—29................M B . 4,500 12,900 8,272 865 4) 566
1830—40. . . . . B B f l 15,600 13,156 .843 550
1841 50. ' . . . . .
©
o
oo 15,400 .1,478 583
1851—60.......................... . 1 16,600 15,100 14,826 1,437. 733
0005
©
22,900 14,600 21,375 | ■ 1,899 878
1871 -8 0 . | I . . . . P 19,991 2,893 1,221-
1881—90. . . . . . . 41,800 16,600 18,966 3,419 ■ 1,254
1891—9 5 . ..................... HH 54,600 18,300 20,042 4,345 1,206
1896—98.......................... 41,800 17,300 23,232 3,769 m 1,151
amounted to kr. 3,600,000 and kr. 4,600,000 respectively. The
margarine (kr. 1,300,000) is counted as butter.
The most important of the other articles of exportation
were packing-paper (kr. 8,100,000; 1891 to 1895, average only
3,500,000); ships (kr. 4,700,000; 1891 to 1895, 0.6 million kr.);
ice (kr. 4,700,000; 1891 to 1895, kr. 1,000,000; the ice market
in 1898 was unusually favourable); dressed stone (kr. 2,000,000);
iron and steel nails (kr. 1,800,000); metals and ores (kr. 1,600,000);
bran (kr. 1,500,000);- copper, etc. (kr. 1,000,000). Formerly we
also had an important exportation of textile manufactures
(189.1— 95 an average of 4.5 million kr., 1896—97 6.0 million
kr.), which almost exclusively went to Sweden; in the month
of August 1897, however, the mutual exemption from duties
which for a long time had been granted by Norway and Sweden
to the products of the respective countries, ceased to exist, and
our exportation of textile manufactures has now almost entirely
1) From Bergen 1696—99, Kristiansund I ti'Jd !)7, TrondBjem 1680—82,
■ 84—88,
2) From Bergen, Trondhjem (1*733) and Kristiansund.
8) Besides, 440,000 gallons of otlier salt fisli.
4) 1825—29. * .