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 VIII. APPENDIX 



As mentioned in the Preface to this paper the first essential in breeding 

 work is to know the exact conditions of soil and climate which characterize 

 the various regions which it is designed to serve. For this reason a brief 

 description of these conditions as they obtain in Sweden is appended here.* 



The country of Sweden occupies the eastern and larger section of the Geographical 

 Scandinavian Peninsula which is situated In the north-western part of position of 

 Europe. The exact position niay be more definitely stated as being between Sweden. 

 69 3' 21" and 55 20' 18" N. Lat. and between 11 6' 19" and 24 9' 11" E. 

 Long, of Greenwich. It will therefore be seen that the southern extremity 

 of Sweden is.farther north than Athabasca Landing, Alberta, Canada. The 

 entire country consequently lies farther north than the principal cultivated 

 areas of the Dominion, 15% of the whole surface area indeed, lying within 

 the Polar Circle. Stockholm, the Capital, is situated on parallel 59 21", 

 which is slightly north of Fort Vermillion, Alberta, Canada, and south of 

 St. Petersburg, the Capital of Russia. Sweden is bounded on the east, south 

 and partly on the west by water, the only land boundaries being those 

 dividing it from Finland and from Norway. The waters are: The Baltic 

 Sea with the Gulf of Bothnia, the Oresound, the Kattegat and the Skagerack. 



The length of Sweden from north to gouth is about 1,600 kilometres or 

 993 English miles. Its breadth is approximately one-fourth as great as its 

 length. The area, according to the most recent surveys, is given as 44,786,227 

 hectares, or about 110 million acres. It is a little smaller than either France 

 or Germany, but is almost half as large again as the British Isles. It may 

 therefore be regarded as one of the larger countries of Europe. Carrying the 

 comparison to Canada, the area of Sweden represents approximately 75% 

 of the total land area of the province of Ontario. Only about 8^% of the 

 surface area of Sweden is regarded fit for agricultural purposes of which 

 area only about one-half or nine million acres is under cultivation. Of this 

 about 8^ million acres is under field crops and the remainder under garden 

 and pasture. Owing to the presence of extensive areas in the north which 

 cannot be cultivated, the total per cent of agricultural land in Sweden is 

 small. In Skane, the leading agricultural province, not less than 60% of 

 the entire area is under cultivation; this province contains in fact 17% of the 

 agricultural land of all Sweden. 



Statistics of 1898 show there to have been about 334,360 farms in 

 Sweden divided as follow: 



23% consisting of only 5 acres. 

 66% consisting of between 5 and 50 acres. 

 10% consisting of between 50 and 250 acres. 

 1% consisting of more than 250 acres. 



* This description has been obtained for the most part from the Swedish publication entitled "Sveriges 

 Land och Folk," 1904, Gov't. Printing Bureau, Stockholm. An English edition of this publication entitled 

 "Sweden, its People and its Industry," is also available. 



