168 Report on the Acfriculture of Siceden and Norway. 
In view of the increasing importance of the agricultural rela- 
tions which I have thus endeavoured to indicate, and in the ab- 
sence of any reliable information in the English language on the 
present state of agriculture in Sweden and Norway, the Council 
of the Society resolved that a Report upon the Agriculture of 
Scandinavia, with special reference to the stock-farming, should 
be obtained for publication in the ' Journal.' Having been en- 
trusted with the preparation of this Report, which was to include 
a notice of the Agriculture of Denmark, I spent ten weeks of the 
past summer in visiting the best districts of Sweden, Denmark, 
and Schleswig-Holstein, and in taking a rapid glance at the agri- 
culture of Southern Norway. 
In the following pages I shall endeavour to give a fair idea 
of the leading features in the agriculture of the southern pro- 
vinces of Sweden and N orway, leaving the Report on Danish 
farming for a future number of the ' Journal.' I have selected 
this order of proceeding because Danish agriculture has already 
been twice reported upon in the pages of this Journal,* whereas 
some short notes on Sweden, published thirty-two years ago,t 
comprise the only notice of the agriculture of the Scandinavian 
Peninsula which is contained in the publications of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England. 
I should be ungrateful if I did not thankfully acknowledge 
the great kindness and hospitality of all the gentlemen whose 
names are mentioned in this Report, and of many other worthy 
representatives of their country ; more particularly if I did not 
specially record the exertions on my behalf of our honorary 
member, Mr. Juhlin Dannfelt, who took every means and oppor- 
tunity to further the object of my visit to Sweden ; and of the 
Chamberlain Hoist, who did everything in his power to render 
my brief visit to Norway as instructive and agreeable as possible. 
I wish also to express my thanks to Mr. VVillerding (the Consul- 
General for Sweden and Norway in London) and to the Acting 
Consul (Mr. Coster) for their very great kindness in procuring 
me official data for statistical calculations, and in giving me 
any other aid that I required. 
Physical Features. 
The Scandinavian Peninsula extends northwards from lat- 
55° 22' N. to the North Cape, in lat. 71° 12' N. Its most southern 
extremity is nearly in the same parallel as the Tweed, and its 
chief southern town, Malmii, apj)roximately coincides in lati- 
tude with the town of Berwick. The western and extreme 
• Vol. ii., 1842, p. 400; and vol. X!u., 1860, p. 267. t Vol. iv., 1S43, p. 19G. 
