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Kind of seed.	Area in acres	Yield in bushels	Value in kroner
Oats .... .	241,760	9,511,909	18,158,707
Barley .... .	127.948	4,092,759	12,223,098
Mangcorn . . . .	35,075	1,396,796	3,314,917
Wheat .... .	10,838	255,709	949,838
Rye.....	33,998	918,324	2,780,767
Pease ....	9,009	220,973	835,434
Potatoes . . .	96,670	23,213,858	24,807,136

Compared with the areas, the yields of the different species of
grain are large compared with other European countries. This is
probably due chiefly to the more careful cultivation and heavier
manuring that, as a rule, are given to the smaller areas, and it
can therefore only in a less degree be ascribed to a fertile
soil or good natural conditions otherwise. This appears from the
following table, which shows the yield by deciton per hectare of
the different seeds.

	Wheat	Rye	Barley	Oats
Norway .......	16.9	17.3	18.2	16.4
Sweden .......	14.82	14.36	14.71	13.20
Denmark .......	25.22	16.03	16.81	13.53
Finland.......	11.83	10.65	9.66	10.50
Great Britain and Ireland .	20.09		18.96	16.52
France ........	11.92	10.65	11.67	10.58
Germany .......	13.72	10.62	13.40	11.89
Russia ........	5.57	6.41	6.79	6.22

Meadow cultivation has made great progress in Norway during
the last few decades. When the soil has been utilised for grain
fields for three years, it is as a rule again laid out as meadow,
a mixture of different seeds being used, among which timothy
and clover play the most prominent part, and in which several
of the wild grass seeds, such as cocksfoot, fescque, poa and
others come in as a further addition. Although as yet it is only
in a minority of localities that a certain rotation of seeds is
being used, the following seven years series can now be
considered the rule in different parts of the country: First year oats
or mangcorn, second year root crops or fallow, third year barley
or rye, and then grass for about four years.

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