252 Report on the Agriculture of Sweden and Norway. 
The farm attached to the college consists of 700 acres of good 
agricultural land, all of which has been drained 4 ft. deep, and 
10 yds. apart ; and there are 24 acres of garden. Nearly 100 
acres are in permanent pasture, and the remaining 600 are 
cropped on a ten-course system as follows : — (1) half in green 
crop and half in rape-seed, stable-manure being applied to the 
former, and afterwards, from 225 to 300 lbs. per acre of a 
mixture of Peruvian and Mejillones guano in preparation for (2) 
wheat ; (3) sugar-beet, the land having been manured as soon 
as it could be harrowed, and before sowing, with 300 lbs. dissolved 
guano, and 150 lbs. Mejillones per acre ; (4) barley ; (5) potatoes; 
with farmyard-manure, or peas and vetches without manure ; but, 
in the latter case, the land afterwards dressed with 300 lbs. dis- 
solved guano and 150 lbs. Mejillones per acre, in preparation 
for (6) wheat, generally, but sometimes spring-corn ; (7) seeds, 
consisting of about 16 lbs. red clover, 4 lbs. white, 16 lbs. rye- 
grass, and 12 lbs. Timothy, sown the previous March ; (8) seeds, 
ploughed up in July, and manured with 150 lbs. dissolved guano, 
and from 150 to 225 lbs. Mejillones per acre ; (9) wheat or 
rye ; and (10) half in bare fallow, manured with 300 lbs. dis- 
solved guano and 150 lbs. Mejillones, in preparation for rape- 
seed, and the other half in spring-corn. The bare fallow is 
also given per acre 25 loads of sea-weed, which has been fer- 
mented in heaps and consolidated into a compost. 
The following additional details will not only illustrate the 
climate and soil of Scane, but also show that high farming 
produces good crops in that district. Wheat is sown from the 
middle of September to the first week in October, from 7 to 8 
pecks of seed being used, and the crop averaging from 38 to 
45 bushels per imperial acre. Rye is sown rather earlier, and 
yields as much as 45 bushels. Barley is sown in the middle 
of April, about 3 bushels to the acre ; if after sugar-beet, the 
crop will be from 52 to 56 bushels per acre, but otherwise about 
the same as wheat. From 3 to 4 bushels of oats are sown per 
acre in the beginning of April, and the crop is usually about 
45 bushels per acre. Rape-seed is sown at the end of July or 
first week in August, rather more than 8 lbs. to the acre, and 
yields about 45 bushels. Potatoes are planted the third week in 
May, and yield about 225 bushels. Mangolds and sugar-beets 
are got in during the middle of May, from 20 to 25 lbs. of seed 
per acre being used. The crop is from 16 to 18 tons per acre, 
mangolds being generally the higher figure ; in 1873 the crop 
of sugar-beets was 16^ tons per imperial acre, and this year 
(1874) it looked larger. The cost of cultivation of sugar-beet 
at Alnarp is reckoned as follows, per imperial acre: — Manure, 
21. 10s. ; expenses of cultivation (other than workpeople), 
