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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
role (excepting in Northern Sweden); wheat, on the contrary, has gained
ground, which more especially has taken place with oats. The
cultivation of rye has changed its relative proportion comparatively least.
Besides the above-named crops, there are also cultivated in Sweden
mixed corn, peas, beans, and vetches, and a scarcely appreciable amount
of buck-wheat.
The crops produced of the various cereals during different periods
are shown by Table 66 and those for each Län in our days by Table
67. On the whole, Sweden can be said to be divided, in the question
of cereal-cultivation, into three regions. In Norrland, barley is the
predominant crop, and that in a higher degree the more to the north
one comes. Central and Southern Sweden, again, are divided into an
eastern half, with a large cultivation of rye, and a western half, with
a still greater cultivation of oats. An idea of these conditions may
be gained from the maps on pages 530 and 534.
An important role is played in our farming by our most southern
province Skåne. It may be seen from Table 67 that its two Lftns,
Malmöhus and Kristianstad, which occupy but 21/» % of the area of
Sweden, produce 30 % of all our wheat, 18 % of our rye, 33 S of
the barley-crop of the country, and 13 % of its oats. No less than 17 S
of the total monetary value of all the crops of Sweden, or quite one
sixth, belongs to these two Lftns.
Table 63. Area under cereal Crops, in 18H2, by Läns. Hectares (o 2"47 acre»).
Lftns.
Total.
Wheat.
Eye.
Barley.
Oats.
Mixed
Corn.
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Stockholm............................71,9M 6,858 18,199 5,916 28,796 6,709 5,488
Uppsala....................................65,827 5,774 15,632 11,803 23,204 5,896 3,518 I
Södermanland......................75,448 6,278 17,540 3,654 39,799 4,572 3,605 I
Östergötland........................126,147 7,983 29,414 11,670 41,610 27,272 8,198 j
Jönköping................................67,768 667 19,377 3,983 42,012 830 929 j
Kronoberg................................55,478 26 13,977 9,264 31,698 196 317 .
Kalmar........................................87,217 3,761 31,763 12,917 36,603 582 1^91 I
Gotland......................................26,380 4,814 10,111 10,563 2,027 1,401 464 I
Blekinge....................................38,844 1,500 16,211 3,373 15,921 1,097 742 j
Kristianstad..........................116,126 4,660 34,084 16,266 39,730 18,199 3,190 |
Malmöhus................................182,167 15,050 31,638 44,059 51,973 32,882 6,565
Halland......................................73,171 2,630 18.022 3,919 43,869 3,460 1.271
Göteborg och Bohus.... 57,762 970 9,556 5,328 37,737 1,071 3,130 ’
Elfsborg....................................66,448 1,486 18,608 2,186 74,121 1,003 2,044 ,
Skaraborg................................156,343 5,563 37,925 3,844 105,099 1,750 5,162 I
Vermland..................................62,106 838 24,084 1,290 64,311 573 1,010
Örebro..........................................66,376 3,617 15,464 2,317 42,275 94€ 1,757
Vestmanland........................65,297 4,941 15,308 3,536 37,477 1,416 2,619 I
Kopparberg............................44,675 544 9,614 3,506 26,807 3,421 783
Gefleborg..................................30,426 69 2,875 10,330 15,680 922 550 :
Vesternorrland....................24,613 2,039 16,968 5,042 605 259
Jemtland................................10,739 . 576 7,494 1,632 229 808
Vesterbottten......................18,258 . 787 15,550 1,706 215 —
Norrbotten..............................14,669 _427 12,647 1,625 _
Total 1892 1,673,644 78,029 363,231 222,383 816,754 115,247 54,606
Id. 1900 1,707,313 84,762 404,135 217,561 821,051 133,618 46,186 i
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