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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
Potato-crop, yearly averages.
On the whole, the cultivation of potatoes in Sweden has not especially
increased during the last few decades, which doubtlessly stands partly
in connection with the decrease in the manufacture of spirits. At the
present day, the cultivation of potatoes is relatively greatest in the Län
of Kristianstad, which also produces most spirits.
Of låte years, several new varieties of potatoes have been introduced
into Sweden, of which the Magnum bonum has won most favour, in
consequence of its unusually great power of resistance to the diseases
which affect potatoes.
B) The cultivation of the Sugar-beet has made immense progress
in Sweden during låte years, of which a more detailed account is
presented in the following pages, in the section on the Sugar-industry.
Beet-growing is, as well known, of great importance on the whole
for the improvement of agriculture. The careful working and great
artificial manuring of the ground which is necessary if beet-cultivation
is to be remunerative, has increased the productive qualities of the soil,
even in regard to other crops, and the cereal-harvest in beet-growing
districts has, therefore, not at all diminished in the same proportion
as the cereal-bearing area.
The sugar-beet can be profitably cultivated in Sweden only in
the most southern parts of the country: Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge,
in the southern part of the Län of Kalmar, and in the islands of
Gotland and Öland. The total area employed amounts to about 30,000
hectares, and the crop to about 9 million quintals. On an average, the
crop usually amounts to about 300 quintals per hectare.
C) Other root-crops, turnips, swedes, and carrots, are cultivated
over an area of about 18,000 hectares. At the rate of 400 quintals
per hectare, the crop would amount to about 7 million quintals
annually, but precise figures are not to be had. Only in certain parts
1 A quintal = 197 cwts.
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