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710,000 acres under cultivation. The total quantity of cereals Larvcstcd, after 
deducting the seed sown, amounted to about 1,566,700 imperial quarters, 
besides about 1,71)5,000 imperial quarters of potatoes; showing an increase 
since the last deceninal Report of 33'21 per cent, on the former, and 28'83 per 
cent, on the latter ; while the population had only increased 12' 16 percent. 
The increase at the same time of the quantity of seed sown was only 14'89 per 
cent., which will indicate that material progress is and has been in operation, 
consequent upon the imjiroved system of cultivation introduced. 
Great atteution l^as likewise been paid to the improvement of the breed and 
feeding of cattle ; the effect is evident in the capital by the striking improvement 
that is perceptible in thequality of butchers' meat generally. According to the 
last official return, it appears there were in the country the following stock, viz. : — 
Description of Animals. 
Number, 
Increase per Cent, since 
last Report. 
Per Cent. 
154,447 
17-10 
Horned cattle . . 
949,953 
12-74 
1,596,199 
10-29 
357,102 
22-74 
113,320 
27-85 
116,891 
29-49 
Great and continued care is being devoted to the selection of the best foreign 
breeds, with a view to the improvement of the native stock. The result, as 
far as experience hitherto warrants, appears to have been as favourable as could- 
be expected. 
1863. — With a population of little more than a million and a half, 2,410,475 
quarters of corn, &c. (reduced to the barley standard value), were consumed ; 
thus the growth of the country supplied nourishment for 1,100,000 persons, 
while about 400,000 were supplied by foreign importation. " It must be borne 
in mind that between 150,000 and 200,000 quarters are consumed in the 
production of beer and spiiits." 
The import of corn has continued steadily to augment. 
Sufficient oats and potatoes are grown in the country to supply its wants; 
indeed the export of the first-named article has commenced of late years. The 
imports, then, consist of barley, rye, and wheat. 
1865. — Imports into Norway. 
"Wheat 38,760 barrels.* ; 
Eye 795,469 
Barley 596,199 
Flour 191,600 cwts. 
Norway received her supplies of corn and meal almost exclusively from 
Eussia, Prussia, and Denmark. But since the Treaty with France, large 
quantities of rye have been shipped from that country. The population 
steadily increases ; at a census taken at the end of 1865 it reached 1,701,561. 
Sweden. 
GOTHENBURG, June mJi, 1862.— Exports of oats iu 1861, = 133,400 
quarters, of which 114,000 quarters to England. 
Harvest of 1861 far below an average, and the export of oats in 1862 will 
fall far short of former years. An import of 100,000 quarteis of rye (more 
than for twenty years) took place, owing to the bad crop of 1861. 
* A barrel is rather less than 4 bushels. 
