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Besides this are groceries, etc., which, as it is computed 

 that those who live on land pay ninety per cent, of all the 

 taxes, cannot be estimated at less than 50 rqr. on each 

 household, or for all the land people 625,994 rqr. (In 

 1860 they reckoned for each household fifty-five Ib. coffee, 

 twenty-one Ib. sugar, and one and a half tunna salt yearly.) 



" This gives us a yearly charge on every tunnland of 

 land : 



rqs. o. 



Cost of tillage 9 97 



Corn for sowing . . . . 6 65 



Eepairs, etc. . . . . . 1 32 



Interest on the mortgage loan . . 3 32 

 Interest on the " Amortering Hy- 



potheks Loan " . . .... 94 



Taxes of all kinds . . . ' 2 60 

 Cost of living after deducting 



cost of cultivation , , . . . 12 89 



37 69 



fc It consequently follows that the medium price of 1,06 

 tunna of corn must not be under 8 rqr. 86 6. if agriculture 

 shall nourish. But, as from 1854 to 1863 the medium price 

 was only 8 rqr. 50 6., it is clear there must have been a loss/'' 



The reader must, however, bear in mind that this reckon- 

 ing is based upon the present produce of the land, at current 

 prices. That prices will rise much within the next twenty-five 

 years I do not expect, but that this 4,000,000 tunnland 

 could be made to give a much better produce, and this at a 

 trifling further expense of cultivation after the land is once 

 improved, I think I shall satisfactorily prove in my chap- 

 ter on the agriculture of the country. Allowing these state- 

 ments to be correct, and we have every reason to believe 

 that they are, it is plain that all the Swedish farmer has 

 to trust to, is a better system of managing and farming 

 his land. It is very unlikely that any rise will take place 

 in the present prices of corn (except indeed in case of war) j 



