Kraks vejviser 1929 Handelsregister

9 product thereby not infrequently acquires. By way of illustration, butter, Denmark’s chief export commodity. which is produced by the co-operative dairies, is the output of about 1400 quite small industrial undertakings; but also in a number of other branches for instance in the manufacture of single parts in series or where personal taste gives the article its value, the small factory is fully competitive also on the world market. The concentration which has taken place both here and elsewhere in other branches of industry when a technical advantage is hereby obtained manifests itself particularly by the increase in the number of firms having over 100 hånds each. The number of such finns rose from 165 in 1897 to 312 in 1925 and during the same period the number of the hånds em- ployed increased from 32,000 to 82,000, or by 156%. Amongst tliese concentrated branches there are several where the whole or at all events by far the greater part of the production of the country is dominated by one single company, this being the case for instance with regard to spirits, paper, matches, glass, sugar etc. The increasing industrial character both in small and large activities exhibits itself in the greater application of mechanical power. The number of concerns utilizing such power (wind and water power excluded) was in 1925 more than six times as large as in 1897 the aggregate machinery power at the same time having increased eiglit times. In view of the close connexion of the industrial development with that of agriculture it follows that a very large part of the industrial undertakings are occupied m the finishing of agricultural products. In 1925 over one sixth of the total number of industrial employees were engaged in the manufacture of foodstuffs, and about one third of the whole machinery power was used in this branch. Under this heading fali the making of butter, cheese, con- densed milk and cream, casein, bacon and other slaughter-house products, conserves, flour and meal, biscuits, sugar, coffee substitutes, beer, spirits etc., which include the most impor- tant agricultural export goods. (See Danish Agriculture). The high development- of the foodstuff industries has given rise to a number of other industries for the manufacture of auxiliary appliances etc. in connexion with the transport- ation and sale of the goods, for instance staves for casks, tin cans, bags, packing cases, bottles, ’ corks, crown corks, binder twine etc. and moreover of speciality machinery, imple- ments and auxiliary materials in the service of agriculture, for instance ploughs, harrows, sowing machines, addle spreaders, horse hoes, threshing machines, chopping machines, milis, wind motors, beet lifters, milking machines, electrical articles and plant for agricultural purposes, fertilizers and fodder cakes. Or for use in the agricultural industry: Centrifugals and miils, refrigerating machinery and plant, butter colour, cheese rennet, sausage and slaughter- house product machines, milistones, bakery ovens and fittings, beer bottling machines, apparatuses for spirit distilleries, breweries and tanneries, tanners tools and tanning extracts etc. etc. 1he great consumption in all these spheres on the home market has developed a Wholesale production in these industries which forms a basis for a large export trade. There has also developed on basis of other national raw materials than those of agriculture a considerable cement and cement goods industry, lime and tile works, chinaware and faience factories, the treatment of siliceous earth, flint pebbles etc. Also with respect to these a considerable export trade takes place. In connexion with the other trades of the country such as shipping, fishery, means of transportation by land, building and connected industries, and with the growing towns which invariably follow the tracks of industrial development, a further large number of industries have arisen, amongst which should be mentioned ship-building, the manufacture of motors and dynamoes of all kinds, nautical and other instruments, boats and fishing nets, cranes and lifts, railway material, motor cars, electric cables and electrical articles of diffe- rent kinds, machinery for road construction, insulation materials, stoves and other cast goods for building purposes. In all parts of the world Danish engineering firms construct harbours, bridges, railways and factories for the manufacture of cement and refrigerating plant etc. Purthermore spinning and' weaving factories, underwear factories, factories for the treatment of feathers tanneries, foot-wear factories, hat manufactories, arid many others. Denmark’s artistic industries deserve special mention. Danish Chinaware and stone- ware, Danish silversmith work and Danish artistic bookbindinri have all obtained a world reputation. \ As already mentioned Danish industry was earlier almost éxclusively based upon supplying the requireinents of the home market, whilst agriculture yielded the contingent necessary for the foreign trade of the country. A great alteration has however taken place in recent years, and Danish industry has been able to produce an increasing