Bavarian Pencil Factories

Bavaria can boast of 28 pencil factories, which employ 10,000 people, including men, women and children. Together they produce no fewer than 4,000,000 black and 300,000 colored pencils per week. The total output last year reached the enormous quantity of 230,000,000 pencils, in the manufacture of which over 1,800 acres of cedar were used.