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848
x. manufacturing industries of 8wedbn.
Peat Manufacture.
In Sweden there are about 4 million hectares of peat-mosses
available for the production of peat; their average depth is 2 meters.
Every hectare of medium quality peat-moss yields nearly 2,000 tons
of prepared peat; the total area, therefore, of mosses corresponds to 8
thousand million tons of peat for fuel, which, on the supposition that
peat possesses half the heating power of coal, is equivalent to 4 thousand
million tons of coal, or enough fuel to last for centuries. With the
exception of Russia, there is no country in Europe having such a
plentiful supply of peat as Sweden, and scarcely any country has peat
of so good a quality.
at 1,708,000 kronor, 805,000
kronor being for plate-glass
for windows and mirrors;
most of the glass imported
comes from Belgium. One
article which might very
well be manufactured in
Sweden but which is
imported in increasingly large
quantities, is photographic
dry-plates; in 1900,the value
of the import of that article
alone was 207,000 kronor.
The exports of glass-ware
in 1900 reached the value
of 3,143,000 kronor, of which
881,000 kronor were for glass
dishes, bottles, etc., and
2,262,000 kronor for other
kinds not specified. More
than 91 % of the total
ei-ports were sent to England.
Pounded glass or
glass-dust was manufactured at
one factory in 1900, the
value of production being
6,000 kronor. — Painting on glass and china was carried on at four
factories in the same year, the value of production being 68,000 kronor.
— Mirrors are made by lining sheets of glass with amalgam; that is
usually carried on as a handiwork trade. There are, however, a few
factories engaged in the manufacture of plate-glass for mirrors.
Glass Botcl from Reijmyra.
Height: 44 centimeters. Diameter: 62 centimeters.
(Or respectively 17"s and 20’6 inches.)
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