56 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



for every tunnland of cultivated land. The proportion of 

 cultivated land to pasture is as one to three. 



" In 1856, the mortgage debts on all the estates through- 

 out Sweden amounted to 400,000,000 rix-dollars (or about 

 22,000,000 sterling), and these have certainly rather de- 

 creased than increased ; and at the rate of five per cent, the 

 yearly interest of this debt charged upon the land will 

 amount to 20,000,000 rqr., or on each tunnland of culti- 

 vated land 3 rqr. 32 6., besides 94 6. on each tunnland 

 as the yearly interest on another debt, called the ' ' Amor- 

 tering Hypotheks Loan,' 5 which in 1858, amounted to 

 about 1 14,000,000 rqr. These debts are principally charged 

 on the south and midland districts. 



" Forsyth lays all the taxes on the land at about 

 20,000,000 rqr. yearly (including soldiers, state, church, 

 poor, etc.) ; but these have much increased since his time. 



"The yearly consumption for 3,425,509 people (these 

 have now, in 1864, increased to 4,000,000), besides half of 

 the root produce (the other half he gives to brandy distil- 

 ling), he reckons at 8,000,000 tunna of corn, and 2,000,000 

 for the dairies and stables, or, making together, a yearly sum 

 of 105,000,000 rqr. He allows a charge upon each hem- 

 man throughout the country for buying dairy produce, 

 which the land cannot itself produce, as follows : 



lisp. sk. rqr. rqr. o. 



Butter 1 16 at 10 per lispund 10 80 



Cheese 88 3 2 64 



Pork 37 5 1 85 



Meat 59 4 2 36 



Which gives for the whole 65,000 hemmans, into which the 

 country is divided, a yearly charge of 



rqr. 



Butter . . . 650,000 



Cheese . . . 189,000 



Pork .... 120,000 



Meat . . ... 153,000 



1,112,000 



