194 Report on the Agricultui-e of Sicedcn and Norway. 
Live Stock. 
The annexed Table (VIII.) gives the number of head of farm 
stock in Sweden in each of the years 1865 to 1872 inclusive, and 
the number in Norway in 1865. Comparing the Swedish figures 
for 1872 with those already given (Table VII.), of the quantity 
of land under cultivation and in natural grass (exclusive of forest 
and mountain-pasture) in that country in the same year, the num- 
ber of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs, per 100 acres in Sweden, 
and those in Great Britain, according to our own Agricultural 
Returns (also exclusive of mountain pasture), are as follows : — 
Horses. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Pigs. 
40 
18-9 
H-9 
3-6 
Great Britain . . 
G-8 
18-1 
90-0 
8-9 
A reliable comparison with Norway cannot be given ; but if we 
assume the acreage of land under cultivation in Norway in 1865, 
given in the Agricultural Statistics of Great Britain for 1873, 
to be approximately correct, then the number of live stock per 
100 acres was as follows : — Horses, 5*1 ; cattle, 33'3 ; sheep, 60 ; 
and pigs, 3"2. It is tolerably clear, however, that the 2,840,500 
acres of land stated in our own Statistics to include all kinds of 
crops, bare-fallow, and grass, cannot include the natural grass of 
the Saeter, which, throughout Norway, almost entirely supports 
the stock of cattle and sheep during the summer months, and 
also, to a certain extent, furnishes the hay for their winter keep.* 
It should also be mentioned that, in addition to the stock 
included in Table VIII., Sweden possessed 118,438 goats in 187l\ 
and Norway 290,650 in 1865, as well as 101,750 reindeer. 
Horses. 
The average number of horses per 100 acres of land, exclusive 
of the forest and mountain pasture, is, both in Sweden and Nor 
way, much less than in England, although the short season for 
farm-work, the demand for horse-labour in the forests, and the 
comparatively small mileage of railways, are conditions that all 
point to an opposite result. It must, however, be remembered 
that, on the one hand, the Norwegian and Swedish cattle include a 
large number of draught-oxen, amounting in Sweden to probably 
at least 2 per 100 acres, as the total number of oxen is equal tt 
* I regret that I have been unable to make use of theofticial statistics relatinj 
to the cultivation of the land in Norway, as my calculations of the quantities int* 
Knglish wci<;litK and measures gave results that were evidently erroneous, whei 
compared with similar calculations relating to Sweden and Denmark. 
