242 , Report on the Agriculture of Sweden and Norway. 
cows is calculated, I subjoin the following translation of an 
account published by Mr. Odelberg in his description of 
' Enskede in 1868,' and of the paragraphs explanatory of it : — 
" To give an idea, although incomplete, of the two .principal branches of 
farming industry at Enskede, viz., agriculture and dairy-keeping, two Tables 
are annexed, made out from the last year's accounts ; the one showing the 
cost of cultivating the soil during the last three years, and the revenue there- 
from ; the second being an exposition of the debit and credit derived from 
the dairy department during 1865 and 1866, with a calculation of the cost or 
production of one kanna of milk (= 0'576 imperial gallon) during those 
years 
" It can be seen from the first of these Tables* that a harvest is required 
exceeding iu value Al. 12s. per acre of the whole area, the barren soil in- 
cluded, to cover the yearly expenses of cultivating the soil, together with the 
interest of principal and floating capital ; that the expenses for labour, seed- 
corn, manure, &c., alone attain the amount of Zl. 14s. per acre, that out of the 
sum which the harvest exceeds in value the last-mentioned amount, the rent — 
13s. per acre — must first be paid, and then the interest on the floating capital, 
5s. Zd. per acre ; and that what then remains is the net profit on the tillage, 
which profit has been on an average 1111. 10s. these three years. f 
Table XI. — Calculation of the Cost of Production of Milk at Enskede 
during the Financial Years 1865-66 and 1866-67. 
The year 1865-G6. Production of Millc, 68,564 kannor = 39,544 gallons. 
EXPEKSES. 
Gross. 
Net. 
Per Gall, 
of Milk. 
Fodder : viz. grass, hay, and pasturing 
Straw 
Meal, groats, rape-cake, and salt 
Draff 
Total cost of food 
Less the value of the manure, equal to the"l 
value of the straw / 
Other expenses : — 
Labour, wages, transport (the carriage ofl 
milk not included) j 
Purchase of cows 
Interest on capital, proportionate share ofl 
expenses of maniigcment, &c / 
Lighting and sundries 
Total for other expenses 
Less cattle sold, dead meat,\Q7, , - ^ 
hides, &c j'^''- ^"^ " 
Increased value of stock . . . . 46 15 5 
Total cost of milk 
£ s. d. 
320 14 0 
119 2 9 
472 8 9 
100 13 3 
1012 18 9 
119 2 9 
£ s. d. 
893 IG 0 
5-4 
170 14 G 
269 1 3 
78 1 0 
12 10 5 
530 7 2 
318 10 5 
211 16 9 
1-3 
1105 12 9 
- 6-7 
* Tlio rc-publicalion of this Table is not necessary, 
t Ecjual to about 5s. Gd. per acre. 
