AGEICULTUEE. 53 



" The population of Sweden in the end of 1858, may be 

 reckoned at 3,733,000 souls, who, after an average of two and 

 a half tunna corn, and one tunna potatoes, yearly for each per- 

 son, will, in round numbers, consume yearly 8,710,000 tunna of 

 corn, and 3,733,000 tunna of potatoes. For the dairies and 

 stables we shall require yearly 1,000,000 tunna corn and 

 750,000 tunna potatoes; and for the distillery of 15,000,000 

 kanna of branvin, 392,000 tunna of corn and 1,091,000 

 tunna of potatoes; and the balance or surplus over the 

 land's own requirements, which the production leaves 

 (taken after the average of five years, 1852-57), comes to 

 about 700,000 tunna, so that the total production of the 

 land will be 10,802,000 tunna of corn and 5,574,000 

 tunna of potatoes. This result is, however, higher than 

 that given us by the government statistics for 1851-55, 

 viz., 9,778,370 tunna of corn, and 5,429,545 tunna of 

 potatoes. 



' ' If we reckon that one tunna of potatoes is equal to one- 

 third of a tunna of corn, and after this proportion reduce 

 the potato crop, we find a corn production for the whole 

 country of about 1 2,660,000 tunna, which, after five tunna 

 per tunnland, gives us an area of arable or corn producing 

 land of 2,532,000 tunnland. But, as on an average one- 

 third of the arable land yearly lies fallow, so we must add 

 one-third to the above total, which brings it to 3,376,000 

 tunnland (or 145 Swedish square miles). Other statistics, 

 however, reckon it at 4,000,000 tunnland in 1864. This is 

 not much in proportion to the whole area of the land com- 

 pared with other countries. In Great Britain it is reckoned 

 that 16,000,000 tunnland are open arable land, and Bel- 

 gium, whose whole surface is less than that of either of the 

 two Swedish provinces, Smaland or Dalaroe, has about 

 3,300,000 tunnland of open arable land. With the excep- 

 tion of Norway, there is, perhaps, no other country in 

 Europe whose arable land occupies so small a proportion to 

 its surface as Sweden." 



Wheat is very little grown in Sweden, the principal 

 produce being rye and oats. 



