24 Sweden. 



When properly done by, I have seen some rattlhig crops of 

 wheat in many places, which proves that, with care, the land might 

 soon be adapted to its culture 3 and I wonder it is not more 

 attended to. An average crop will probably be about eight tunna, 

 or four quarters, to the acre ; it should weigh 3oolb. per tunna, and 

 average 25^. in the market. Red wheat is generally sown three- 

 quarters of a tunna seed to the tunneland ; and spring wheat, if 

 they can get it in early enough, generally does well. 



Wermland is not a barley province, but by good draining it 

 might be made to carry good crops. It is impossible to give an 

 average of this crop, which varies from six to twelve tunna per 

 tunneland, and will average about 12?. per tunna, weight 26olb. 



Oats, however, appear to be peculiarly adapted to this soil and 

 climate. They are generally sown three years in succession on the 

 same land, in many places six, and sometimes ten — just cast into 

 the land, without any manure ; and, notwithstanding this lazy-bed 

 culture, the return will sometimes be six tunna to the acre ; but we 

 see often wretched crops, and it is not to be wondered at, con- 

 sidering what state the land must be in after such close cropping. 

 The principal oats grown here are both white and black, and 

 potato oats. They will weigh from i6clb. to 20olb. the tunna, and 

 the price varies from 85. to 1 2s. 



Potatoes will average 3^. to 6s., and turnips (Swedish) 4^. per 

 tunna. The land seems well adapted to potatoes. On Gardsjo 

 they generally plant fifteen tunna on three tunneland, and get back 

 seldom less than 150 tunna. On good ground, carrots grow w^ell 

 up here, and occasionally the crop will yield 200 tunna to the 

 tunneland. 



Beans are but little grow^n, nor do I think the country adapted to 

 them — certainly not at present. Peas, however, grow well in 

 many places. 



The clover crops are excellent ; and as there is in this country no 

 rich old natural meadow-grass, hke the English meadow^s. it is the 

 standard hay crop here, and very heavy crops they get. The seed 

 is white clover, alsike clover, and timothy grass, mixed, 3olb. to 



