140 TEN YEARS IN SWEDEN. 



at the rate of 5 (or 90 rqr.) per Swedish tunnland, which 

 will give us a sum of 20,000 rqr. to add to the original cost of 

 the farm [30,000 rqr.] , and if we add 20,000 more for improve, 

 ment of buildings, artificial manures, etc., the cost of the 

 farm in an improved state will be 70,000 rqr., or about 

 4000. 



We will now suppose the land to be in first-rate condi- 

 tion, and the purchaser wishes to let it. It should be 

 worth 15 rqr. per tunnland in its improved state all round, 

 which would give him a yearly return of 3000 rqr., or a little 

 more than 4 per cent, on his capital. We have probably 

 valued our improvements, as well I fancy as the purchase- 

 money, rather too highly. So we will say that if this farm, in 

 it& improved condition, were let to a good tenant, it would 

 return the purchaser 5 per cent, on the capital invested, and 

 the farmer who worked it would get also a return, after all 

 his expenses were paid. The tenant would, however, require 

 a capital of at least 12,500 rqr., or 700 English, to come 

 in with, or a little less than 4 per English acre, to work it 

 properly ; and we will now see how the farmer would stand, 

 supposing his returns to be 100 rqr. per Swedish tunnland, 

 which, as I have before said, is not a bit too much. This 

 will give him 20,000 rqr. yearly. We must bear in mind 

 that I am reckoning every tunnland to give an equal return, 

 which probably would not be the case, and I have not de- 

 ducted the fallows ; but as I have valued the farm high, and 

 as I feel pretty certain that, in a wheat district, many an 

 acre would give a far greater return, we may reckon on a 

 return of something like 100 rqr. per tunnland all round, of 

 course supposing it were put into good condition, and in 

 the hands of a persevering man who knew his business ; and 

 such are the men who are wanted as farmers in Sweden; 

 they would, I am sure, receive every assistance and advice 

 from the neighbouring gentry, to start them in their new 

 field. 



Then rqr. 



Cost of cultivation, 25 rqr. per tunn- 

 land V * 5000 



