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AGRICULTURE.
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A Swedish peasant farm. (North Skåne).
Method of Cultivation. In many places on large farms, a regular
rotation of crops was introduced as early as the end of the 18th
century, but even to the beginning of the decade 1851/60 the peasants
regularly employed the biennial and the triennial systems, and it was
seldom that ploughed land was used for fodder plants. Since then,
the system of rotation of crops has become more general even upon
small farms and it is now the ryle. By this system the farm is divided
into 4 to 10 parcels which alternately bear cereal, root, and
grass-crops, and usually lie fallow one year of the period of rotation; the
rule is also that only two ripe corn-crops, at the most, are taken one
after the other. In the following section upon Hoot-crops, an account
is given of the great importance the cultivation of the sugar-beet has
had for the farming in the southern part of Sweden of låte years.
Oxen were formerly the draught-beasts chiefly in use in Central
and Southern Sweden but their number has more and more diminished,
to be replaced by horses, which are more suitable for the thorough
cultivation of the land.
Subsoil-Draining commenced to be used before 1850 and has since
made constant progress, but most actively so in good times and of låte
years, until the price of labour began to prove restrictive in this, as
in so many other cases. Common draining-tiles are generally used as
filling materials; in certain districts cobble-stones, and upon
moor-ground, here and there, brushwood or fencing.
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