AGRICULTURE. 55 



tection, and I insert a capital letter on this subject, evidently, 

 however, from the pen of a protectionist, which I copied 

 from the Stockholm newspaper of February 25th, 1864. 

 This will, doubtless, be interesting to the British, as well as 

 the Swedish political economist. It was entitled " What does 

 a tunna of corn cost to produce in Sweden at the present time?" 

 I am induced to give a literal translation of it, without 

 at all answering for its correctness myself, but I never 

 observed that it was contradicted. The writer says : 



"The cultivated land in Sweden is little above four 

 million tunnland (or not quite 5,000,000 English acres) ; 

 according to Agardth the total area of Sweden is 3868 

 Swedish square miles, and these he divides as follows : 



Swedish Square Miles. 



Cultivated land . . 85 



Meadow and pasture . 200 



285 



The four great lakes ... 82 



Other lakes, etc. . . . 416 



Fells, etc 1000 



Forests 2085 



3868 



"In 1860, the produce of the cultivated land was 

 16,171,780 tunna of corn, and 8,000,000 tunna of bulbs 

 (potatoes, turnips, etc) . Taking eight tunna of potatoes as 

 equivalent to one tunna of rye, the average produce of the 

 whole land may be estimated at 435 tunna per tunnland (or 

 less than three English quarters to the acre), and the medium 

 price of all the corn produced was that year 10 rqr. 67 6. 

 per tunna, or say about 12s. 6d. for the English four bushels. 



' ' The cost of cultivating the land may be reckoned at one- 

 half more than the cost of the corn sown as seed, thus taking 

 five-eights of a tunna at 6 rqr. 65 6. for seed, we have 9 rqr. 

 976. per tunnland for cost of labour. The cost of upholding 

 houses and implements may generally be calculated at 2 rqr. 



