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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
Total cereal crops, yearly averages. By quintals.1
The only autumn-seed in Sweden are wheat and rye, lesser
amounts of which are also cultivated as spring-seed (spring-wheat
especially in the Läns of Halland, Elfsborg, and Östergötland; spring-rye
especially in Kristianstad, Blekinge, and Halland). Of the total area
of land devoted in 1900 to the cultivation of cereals, 474,970 hectares
were taken up by autumn-seed and 1,232,343 hectares by spring-seed.
Amongst the varieties used in Sweden of låte years may be
mentioned Squarehead and Svalöfs English wheat, both of which, however,
have shown that they can scarcely bear the long springs with cold nights
and hot sunny days of Northern Sweden, and are therefore chiefly used
only in Skåne. Several varieties of barley are sown, the six-rowed
principally in Northern Sweden; of the two-rowed varieties, Chevalier,
Plumage, Prentice (Princess) etc. Of varieties of oats, black-oats are
most general in Central and Northern Sweden; in Southern Sweden, on
the other hand, white-oats, of which the varieties Probstejer and Ligovo
oats have been found particularly suitable, especially on the plains.
Table 65. Production and consumption of cereals per inhabitant. 8
Average for the years Total cereal crops. Kilog. per inhab. Wheat and rye. Kilog. per inhab. Other cereals. Kilog. per inhab.
Crop. Need. Seed. [-Con-Bump.-] {+Con- Bump.+} Crop. i Need. Seed. [-Con-tamp.-] {+Con- tamp.+} Crop. Need. Seed. [-Con-nunp–] {+Con- nunp-+}
1801 20.............. 272 286 49 237 9.1 104 16 88 170 182 33 HS
1821 40.............. 31.-1 314 55 259 114 115 18 97 IM 199 37 16S
1841 60............. 947 334 57 277 1.11 130 19 111 21» 204 38 166
1861 80 ............. 407 3*3 66 317 1.11 155 19 136 27« 228 47 181
1881 90............. 45K 468 69 399 135 186 I 19 167 323 282 50 55K
1891 00.............. 475 515 69 446 143 195 | 19 176 332 320 , 50 270 |
1 A quintal = 100 kilograms = 197 cwts. — * The difference between »Crop» and
»Need» consists in the surplus of import or export. A kilogram = 2 204 lbs.
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