52 TEN TEAKS IN SWEDEN. 



export to an alarming extent, and in nearly every article 

 this import shows a decided increase. 



The export of corn is certainly on the increase, but it 

 shows no very decided improvement, for it appears that in 

 1860, 10,950,378 cubic feet of all sorts of corn were ex- 

 ported, and in 1863, 12,326,914 cubic feet. 



In 1862 the export exceeded the import by 5,181,436 

 cubic feet, the value of which, according to the editor of the 

 " Stockholm Farming Magazine/' could not be reckoned 

 at more than 5,000,000 rqr., or in round numbers, 300,000 

 English. It is hard to say what is the area of cultivated 

 land in Sweden, but we shall not perhaps, be very far wrong 

 if we reckon it at about 5,000,000 English acres, and this, in 

 1862, after producing corn enough for the supply of a popula- 

 tion of 4,000,000 people, left a yearly export, above the im- 

 port, to the value of 300,000. 



In 1863 the export of corn from Sweden to London 

 wag . Wheat, 744 quarters, at from 45s. Barley, 6249 

 quarters, at 28s. 6d., showing a very great falling off, for 

 in 1860, 31,615 quarters were exported. Oats, 630,978 

 quarters, at 20s. 



In this year the export of oats into London from other 

 countries, was 920,817 quarters; of these 40,808 quarters 

 came from Norway. 



Thus, the export of oats into London from Sweden is 

 over 40 per cent., against 21 per cent, from Eussia, 17 per 

 cent, from Denmark, and 8 per cent, from Prussia. The 

 value of the oat export from Sweden to London alone in 

 1863 might be reckoned at 625,000. 



Although this cannot be considered as any very large 

 export, it is great when compared with that of former 

 years, for previous to 1840 (about twenty-five years ago) 

 Sweden was obliged to import every year considerably 

 more corn than the country produced, and since that 

 time the export has been gradually on the increase. Now 

 let us turn again to Agardth on this important subject 

 of produce and consumption. Writing in 1859, he 

 says : 



