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The further conversion of the thrown silk into silk goodsis still confined almost exclusively to Vienna, Milan , andComo, whilst its working up into mixed stuffs has attainedconsiderable extension. By far the greater portion of thethrown silk is, therefore, exported to foreign markets.From 1843 to 1S47 these exports showed an annual averageof 1,934,900 lbs. of thrown silk, of 142,700 lbs. of cleanedand dyed silk ; so that there remained for home consump-tion about one-tliird of the entire production, or 1,296,300lbs., because the imports were very inconsiderable.
More than one-lialf of this quantity is worked up inVienna , and its manufacture, including the dyeing process,represents a very large capital. The consumption of sills:in Vienna increases from year to year.
Milan may be classed immediately after Vienna , withreference to the value of its productions in this class.It appears that the cultivation and manufacture of silkin Austria show a gross resulting total of value of59,000,000 of florins; and that they employ more than800,000 persons, some for the whole year, some for shorterintervals, if the breeding of silkworms be also included.Of what importance to Austria the production of silkand silk goods must be is evident from the course of thetrade in these articles, which occupy the highest placeamong the objects of Austrian commerce.]
Samples of raw silk spun oif with cold water.
82 Ronchetti, Pietro Ant., Milan —Manufacturer.Samples of raw and spun silk.
83 Grassi, Dr. Giuseppe, Milan .
Diseased silkworms, cured by the exhibitor’s method.
84 Querini, Giovanni, Venice .
Samples of raw silk.
85 Pari, Geea di, Canegliano, Province of Treviso .Samples of raw silk.
86 Canossa , Marchioness Eleonora, nee Muselli,
Verona —Producer.
Samples of raw silk,
87 Steiner, G., & Sons, Bergamo —Manufacturers.Samples of raw and spun silk.
87a Verza Brotiiers (late Carlo Verza), Milan .Cocoons, raw and spun silk, silk fabrics.
88 Rossi, Giovanni Maria, Sondrio .
Samples of raw and spun silk.
89 IIuntady, Von Kitheley, Count Joseph,
Sheep-wool in fleeces.
90 Figdor, Isaac, & Sons, Vienna —Merchants.Hungarian and Austrian -Silesian sheep and lambs’ wool.[The manufacture of woollen goods constitutes an im-portant branch of Austrian industry. It is of so muchthe greater importance, as it works up a raw materialraised and supplied by Austria herself, in which, besides,she carries on a considerable trade, and which, being anative product, is not subject to the fluctuations that thesupply of a raw material derived from foreign countries isalways liable to.
The average production of w-ool in Austria amountsannually to about 700,000 cwt. Of this quantity aboutone-third (produced in Moravia, Silesia, and Bohemia ,in part also from Galicia, Hungary , and Upper andLoiver Austria ) is of fine quality : one-half (drawn from
Galicia, Hungary, and partly likewise from Transylvania )is of middling quality ; the remainder, of an inferior sort,is grown in Hungary, Transylvania , and the southernprovinces. To this esthnate must be added a quantity ofinferior kinds, which generally is of much about the sameamount, imported chiefly from Turkey and the Danubianprincipalities : these imports amounted, on an average ofthe five years 1843 to 1847 (the years 1848 and 1849having been years out of the usual course and condition,are not noticed here), to 57,000 cwt. annually; whilst theannual exports during the same period averaged 122,700cwt. About 637,000 cwt. of wool remained, therefore, tobe manufactured by Austrian industry.]
91 Von Mittrowsky, Count Anton, Grossherrlitz ,
Silesia —Proprietor.
Pure stock merino sheep-wool.
92 Laeisoh-Mcennich, Count Heinrich, Barmin,
Silesia —Proprietor.
Sheep-wool in fleeces.
93 Wallis, Olivier, Count Von, Eolleschowitz,
Bohemia —Proprietor.
Washed and unwashed wool.
Bohemian hops.
94 Panna, N., & Alexis, J., Croizstadl, Transylvania .Washed and unwashed Transylvania Zackel-slieep and
lambs’-wool, and washed and unwashed TransylvaniaZigaja-sheep and lambs’-wool.
95 Birnbauai, Jacob, Pesth , Hungary —Manufacturer.Prepared Hungarian hemp for various purposes.
95a Privileged Linen Yarn Spinning Mill,
Raw flax, heckled flax, and flax made therefrom.
96 Patent Flax Raiting Establishment,
Vllersdorf near Schonberg , Moravia .
Raw and heckled flax of the year 1850.
[The average production of flax within the monarchyamounts, exclusive of the growth of Hungary , the Vay vode,the Temeser Banate, Croatia, and Slavonia , as well asTransylvania , to 813,700 cwt., and that of hemp to725,400 cwt. Of Hungary ancl Transylvania the annualproduction of flax is reckoned at 380,000 cwt., and ofhemp at 500,000 cwt. The average crops, both as to flaxand to hemp, may be taken as 1,200,000 cwt. of each. Ofthe flax, the distribution is to Galicia , 256,100 cwt.; toBohemia, 178,800 cwt.; to Lombardy , 111,200 cwt.; toMoravia and Silesia, 64,200 cwt. ; and to the Tyrol,50,000 cwt. Of the hemp, to Galicia , 494,900 cwt.; tothe Province of Venice, 59,600 cwt.; and to the MilitaryFrontier , 57,150 cwt. They furnish 360,000 cwt. of cleanflax, and 600,000 cwt. of tow, of clean hemp 360,000 cwt.,with 480,000 cwt. of tow. These quantities, which ulti-mately undergo further manufacture, are, as to flax,scarcely at all affected by the course of trade with foreigncountries; for, during the quinquennial period, 1843 to1847, the average imports amounted to 15,900 cwt., andthe exports to 19,400 cwt. Hemp, on the other hand,derives a considerable increase of quantity from the excessof the imports from abroad. During the same intervalthere were annually imported, on an average, 100,900 cwt.,whilst only 34,700 cwt. were exported.]
97 TOMASSIA, Luigi ,Poggio,Lombardy —Manufacturer.Willow-straw for hats.