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664 VII. FORESTRY OF SWEDEN’.
Table 91. Exports of uniorought timber to different countries, in 1900.
Cubic meters à 35-3 2 cubic feet.
To Deals and battens. Boards (also planed). Beams and rafters. Bound timber. [-Pit-props.-] {+Pit- props.+} Other kinds. Total. Cubic meters. 1
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Norway............... 9,134 625 212 1,977 312 1,747 14, 007
Denmark............. 36,721 273,844 92,180 21,671 85 123,452 547.953
United Kingdom .. 1,316,660 659,170 39,432 6,364 1,094,552 504,789 3,KO,H7
Netherlands......... 248,075 228,584 19,213 78,956 4,365 12,184 591.377 I
Belgium.............. 40,407 132,208 8,297 — 5,461 15^7 202,131 I
German Empire... 166,280 427,995 79,257 3,493 4 15,477 M2,5M i
France................ 517,982 301,222 34,063 1,213 — 3,286 857,78»
Egypt................ 22,589 17,473 64,236 — —865 105,113
The Cape............ 84,973 37,441 253 118 — 495 123,1*
Other countries ... 135,670 60,689 9,002 1,681_— 1,107 20S.H» 1
Total 2,578,491 2,139,251 348,145 j 115,473 | 1,104,479 079,23s l,H3,3t) |
Railway-sleepers are now turned out in large quantities at the
saw-mills of the southern provinces. The export, which of låte years
has greatly increased, goes principally via Gothenburg to Denmark and
England.
A branch of the timber business which has long been regarded
with a certain displeasure or suspicion, is the export of pitprops. The
displeasure is naturally caused by the fear of forest exhaustion, and
this fear is by no means groundless. The cutting of pitprops would
have no injurious effects, if for this purpose were used only such
undersized trees, which, from a rational sylvicultural point of view, are to
be condemned; but it is most destructive when, as is often the case,
entire sections of young timber are mown down wholesale. The main
part of the pitprop exports is from the South of Sweden, from which
most of this timber originally comes; but from Norrland a constantly
increasing export is also taking place. This article goes almost
exclusively to England.
Pulpwood is principally shipped from Gefle and Söderhamn and
goes to Great Britain, France, and Denmark.
The export of staves and headings (both of deciduous wood and of
red and white wood) shows considerable fluctuations from year to year
but, on the whole, it has remained stationary. Competition with the
Finland article has contributed to counteract the development of this
trade and, besides, from some places the demand has decreased, because
in certain industries barrels have been supplanted by casks of sheet
iron. The principal center of export for staves is the Hernösand
district.
Among other kinds of unwrought timber, we may here briefly
mention only lath and trellis-wood, which is almost exclusively shipped
to England, and wood for fuel, which is principally exported from our
most southern ports to Denmark.
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