The State horse-breeding »seter«. 



as well as potatoes. Before the war the production of hay occupied a 

 very large place — no less than 68 % of the cultivated ground. For corn- 

 growing there was employed only about 2;^ % and for potatoes, turnips 

 etc. about 9 %. During the war this state of affairs was essentially al- 

 tered. In 1918 the area of meadow on cultivated ground had gone down 

 to a little over 48 %, the area under corn had gone up to about 40 % 

 and the area under potatoes, turnips, green crops etc. to 12 %. It mav, 

 however, be presumed that some of this increase in the area of tilled land 

 will decline according as normal conditions again come into force. The 

 crops of fodder, as well as much of the corn, are generally used for 

 feeding the live-stock on the farm (cows, horses, swine), which in many 

 parts of the country is stallfed from September to June. Throughout 

 large portions of the country there are to be found extensive ranges of 

 mountain grazing-lands, often at a considerable distance from the farm, 

 on which the live-stock is kept during several months in the summer. 

 Both the milking and the handling of the milk then proceeds as a rule 

 at the grazing-run (the »seter«). 



Large connected areas of which the soil is used for gardening pur- 

 poses are only exceptionally to be met with, and then usually in the vi- 

 cinity of the towns. Otherwise, each farm has generally a small garden, 

 and the cultivation of fruit and berries is very common throughout large 

 parts of the country. 



The yield per unit of area is comparatively large. According to 



