Sweden. — Commencing in the north of Europe with 

 the Scandinavian peninsula, I would remark, that in Swe- 

 den — especially since the the accession of the late king, 

 Carl Johan, better known by the name of Bernadotte — 

 much attention has been paid to agriculture. The im- 

 provement and increase of the flocks of sheep for the 

 growth of wool, the introduction of better breeds of stock, 

 of newer implements, and of an improved rotation of 

 crops — have successively received much attention ; but 

 of late years the great force of the people has been ex- 

 pended on the drainage of the lakes and marshes with 

 whicii the country is so plentifully studded over. The 

 agricultural societies of the provinces, in conjunction with 

 the Academy of Agriculture in Stockholm, have devoted 

 much pains to what may be called the arterial drainage of 

 their several districts; and though the more refined method 

 of improvement, known in Great Britain by the name of 

 thorough drainage^ has not as yet been any where intro- 

 duced, it is only just to the energy of Sweden to say 

 that no European people, in proportion to its natural re- 

 sources, has done more during the last twenty years in the 

 reclamation of improveable land from the dominion of 

 overflowing water. 



Further advances also are secured by the translation, 

 especially from the English, of the best works on scientific 

 agriculture, under the auspices of the Academy of Agri- 

 culture, and by the establishment of agricultural schools 

 and model farms, one of which each province is expected 

 in a few years to possess. Thus in Sweden, as in all other 

 countries, the period of improvement by mechanical means 

 will be succeeded by one of improvement by chemical 

 means — the nature and economical application of which 

 latter means, books and schools will have taught, when the 

 time for more generally applying them shall have come. 

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