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I wonder it is not more attended to. An average crop will 

 probably be 6 to 8 tunna to the tunnland, or quite as much 

 as rye. It will weigh about 300 Ib., and average in the 

 market, perhaps 25 rqr. per tunna. They usually sow of red 

 wheat three-quarters of a tunna to the tunnland, and spring 

 wheat, if they can only get it in early enough, generally 

 does well. 



One thing has often struck me as curious. I never in 

 my life saw a field of corn of any description weeded in 

 Sweden. Certainly they do thin out the turnips, and hoe 

 up the potatoes, but in most of the corn-fields one sees 

 nearly as many weeds as corn. 



Wermland is not a good barley province, but by good 

 draining, the land might be made to carry crops. It is im- 

 possible to give an average of this crop in Sweden, which 

 varies from 6 to 10 tunna per tunnland, according to cir- 

 cumstances. It should weigh 260 Ib. per tunna, and fetch 

 in the market about 12 rqr. per tunna. 



Oats, however, seem to be peculiarly adapted to the soil 

 and climate. -They are usually sown three years in suc- 

 cession on the same land, sometimes, after the old system, 

 six years running, just cast in, without any manure; and 

 can we wonder with such close cropping that we often see 

 such wretched crops ? I declare I have seen such oat crops 

 sometimes that I have wondered how a man could ever mow 

 them. I should say, take the whole province through, that 

 the oat crop in Wermland will not average 5 tunna to 

 the tunnland, but where the land is not too closely cropped, 

 and pretty fairly done by, the return will commonly be 

 from 6 to 8 tunna. On new meadow land just broken 

 up they, however, occasionally get immense crops, and I 

 knew one instance, on a new bit of reclaimed land by the 

 side of a river, when the return was 12 tunna per tunn- 

 land. The principal seed oats here, are black, white, and 

 potato oats. They will weigh from 160 Ib. to 250 Ib. per tunna, 

 and the price in the spring, 1864, was 7 rqr. per tunna. 



Beans are but little grown, especially in Wermland, nor 

 do I think I have seen anything like what we should call real 



