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tions of the countries, their areas, population, the importance of agri- 

 culture in them, etc., it may be well, at the outset, to give a few statis- 

 tical data in this line. The figures given below and elsewhere in this 

 report are from official sources and are the latest available in all cases: 



Area and population of Scandinavian countries. 



Country. 



Norway . 

 Sweden . . 

 Denmark 

 Finland.. 



Sq. miles. 



124, 445 



172, 87(5 



15, 289 



144. 255 



Population. 



2, 000, 917 (1890) 

 4,873,183 (1894) 

 2, 185, 335 (1890) 

 2,431,953 (1892) 



Popula- 

 tion per 

 square 

 mile. 



16.1 



28.2 



142.9 



16.9 



Rural 

 popula- 

 tion. 



Per cent. 

 82 



Sweden, the largest of the four countries, is about the size of the 

 State of California, or about twice as large as the State of Minnesota; 

 and Denmark, the smallest of the Scandinavian countries, is a little 

 larger than Maryland, or about half the size of South Carolina. Keep- 

 ing these relations in mind, the following table, showing the number 

 of institutions of agricultural instruction and research in Scandinavia, 

 will prove of interest: 



Number- of institutions for agricultural instruction and research. 



Educational institutions: 



Agricultural ceil leges 



Agricultural intermediate schools. 

 Agricultural elementary schools.. . 



Dairy schools 



Horticultural schools 



Forestry schools 



Farriery schools 



Total 



Institutions for investigation or control: 



Chemical control stations 



Milk con trel stations 



Seed control stations 



Experiment stations 



Total 



Norway. 



Sweden. 



Denmark. 



Finland. 



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The four countries have, on an average, an agricultural school for 

 about every 58,000 of the rural population, and a control or experiment 

 station for every 220,000 of the rural population. In order to reach a 

 similar ratio in the United States there would have to be about 870 

 agricultural schools and 230 experiment stations; or, if the difference in 

 the density of population (Scandinavian countries having 25.2 persons 

 to the square mile and the United States 21.3) precludes comparison on 

 this point, the State of Pennsylvania, with 117 persons to the square 

 mile and 59.1 per cent rural population, should have 54 agricultural 

 schools and 14 experiment stations. 



