238 Report on the Agriculture of Sioeden and Norway. 
A MiLK-PKODUCING FaRM. 
Enskede is almost in the suburbs of Stockholm, and is worked 
as a suburban dairy-farm with remarkable ingenuity in conjunc- 
tion with a distillery, by their owner, Mr. Axel Odelberg. Here, 
therefore, exist the most favourable conditions for obtaining a 
profitable result fiom the management of a dairy-farm in Sweden ; 
and from this point of view the following sketch of the farming 
and its results may have a special interest. The facts given are 
taken partly from my note-book, partly from Mr. Odelberg's pub- 
lished pamphlets, and partly from the account of his farm which 
appeared in the catalogue of Swedish Exhibits at Vienna, 1873. 
The farm is prettily situated in a valley, bounded and broken 
here and there by wooded hills of no great elevation. In the 
lower part of the valley the land is strong loam, containing a 
fair quantity of vegetable matter ; but nevertheless difficult to 
work both in very dry and very wet weather. The soil of the 
upper part of the valley contains more sand, and is therefore 
lighter, though also rich in vegetable matter. There are three 
agricultural divisions of the farm, viz., the stronger land, the 
lighter land, and the irrigated meadows. 
The stronger land comprises about 227 acres, and is farmed 
on a 10-course shift ; namely, first year, bare fallow, well 
dunged, and followed by rye in the second year, either allowed 
to ripen, or eaten as green fodder, according to circumstances, 
and sown out with seeds (Timothy grass, red clover, and alsike), 
which remain down for three years. In the sixth year oats are 
taken, and in the seventh, vetches for fodder, well manured ; 
then wheat in the eighth, barley in the ninth, and oats, peas, 
vetches, or other pulse-crops, in the tenth year. 
The lighter portion of the arable land measures about 148 
acres, and is divided into twelve fields, eleven of which have the 
following rotation, while the twelfth is cropped as circumstances 
may render necessary : — (1) bare fallow, dunged, and now 
and then sown about St. John's Day with vetches to be used as 
green fodder ; (2) rye or barley, sown out with the mixture of 
clover and grass already mentioned ; (3), (4), and (5), seeds 
mown ; (6) rye, after a deep ploughing and manuring ; (7) 
potatoes, also manured ; (8) barley ; (9) vetches, dunged ; (10) 
barley, and (11) oats. 
The third division of the farm, consisting of 33 acres, is now 
almost exclusively irrigated meadow-land, which is watered in 
spring and autumn with accumulations of rain and drainage- 
water from the homestead and the surrounding land, including 
the runnings from the stables, cowhouses, &c. It may also here 
be mentioned that four horses are kept in employment carting 
town-manure from Stockholm to the farm ; therefore there is 
