Variation in llic Price and Suj'pli/ of TJ'hcaf. 
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exception of some liltle Crown proiicrty which is held during llic pleasnro of 
the soverei<in, or for the life of the tenant, and in some eases witli tlic possi- 
hility of renewal to the next heir. Leases beyond the term of a few years are 
very luicommon. 
3. Tiio valne of real property is deicrniined, not by any mimber of years' 
purchase, but by the capital represented by the annual revenue. The net 
revenue, taken as 6 per cent, interest, will usually give the normal value of 
land and house property. At the jirescnt time, in consequence of the great 
scarcity of money, good estates may be bought,/o*' casJi, at two-thirds of their 
uormal value. 
4. When estates or plots of land are farmed out, the value is paid cither in 
currency or in kind, or in both, according to agreement. 
The system of allotting out estates into farms is somewhat rare in Sweden. 
Owners generally cultivate their own land. 
In 1865 a new article began to be exported into Great Britain and Ireland, 
viz., cattle. In 1866 the exportation of cattle and sheep increased on the pre- 
vious year, but that of pigs decreased. The exportation of horned cattle from 
Sweden may be expected to increase still further as a great part of the country 
is particularly adapted to the breeding of cattle, and this branch of industry has 
only of late been carefully attended to. 
Population, 4,114,141. 
PiEPORT BY Mr. Consul Engsttjrn, June 13th, 1866. — Harvest of 18G5 in 
this district an average for winter seed. Price of wheat for the year 38s. per 
quarter ; barley, 21s. ; oats, 16s. The exports of grain from Gothenburg, in 
1865, 290,1C0 quarters, which, together with that from the other ports of this 
consulate, make a total of 1,057,950 quarters, being 163,250 quarters in 
excess of 1864. 
Cattle. — The very high prices in England, consequent on the prevailing 
cattle plague, have given an impetus to the export of cattle and butchers' meat 
from Sweden. 
APiCHANGEL, 1862. — A cold summer and early autumn frosts almost en- 
tirely destroyed the crops in this governmcjit. The pcasantiy had to kill an 
imusual number of their cattle and sheep from insufficiency of food ; a misfortune 
which will not end with one year. The imports of wheat vary from 2000 quarters 
to 13,000 quarters a year. " All over the government there was a failure of 
this crop in 1865, and it required strenuous efforts, and a heavy expenditure 
on the part of the government, to prevent au actual famine." 
Belgium. 
The following table exhibits the amount of flour and grain imported 
into Belgium during the years 1860 to 1863 : — 
Articles. 
1860. 
1861. 
1862. 
1863. 
Quarters. 
Quarters. 
Quarters. 
Quarters. 
499,153 
637,425 
250,000 
300,000 
285,563 
153,766 
91 ,210 
133,314 
Buckwheat 
6,333 
2,784 
427 
2.567 
308,342 
300,973 
Peas, lentils, beans and'l 
14,675 
29,610 
97,627 
94,528 
Total .. .. 
1,303,330 
1,354,967 
250,000 
300,000 
