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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.

Table 60. Imports and exports of agricultural products.

Value in thousands of kronor à l lO shilling or 0 268 dollar.

Products. Average 1871/75. Average 1876/80. Average 1881/85. Average 1886/90. Average 1891/95. Average 1896/00. In 1900.1 |
Unground corn.....{{j^p 9,725 35,934 18,158 38,309 30,395 27,130 20,491 17,365 26,551 14,773 31,855 3,382 42,064 ! 1,370
..................fö 9,467 873 13,582 823 10,429 1,695 7,843 990 5,928 251 2,542 485 2,651 . 706 1
Other agricult. pro-(Imp. ducts ..............(Eip. 2,539 109 2,757 238 2,846 337 3,214 236 3,598 220 8,868 276 11,220 1 92
...........{S 610 6,867 939 6,432 1,421 8,752 1,169 8,815 795 5,059 1,126 3,046 1*269 i 1,413 1
Meat, pork, sausagejg® j| 6,985 285 10,141 190 8,285 548 6,008 3,386 4.983 6,161 . 6,112 2,413 8£83 i 1*91.
Butter and mar- f Imp. garin...............I Esa. 2,395 6,098 6,320 86 3,554 8,540 4,486 48 4,054 15,202 5,428 81 3,333 25,438 6,874 87 1,943 38,323 1,768 40,491 7,332 111 1,136 ! 36,803 ,
™..................fö 4,820 49 9,859 148 I
Hides, untanned 6,343 650 2,957 593 3,697 753 2,991 1,096 2,611 1,288 5,036 3,174 5,555 i 4^50
Other cattle-farm-flmp. ing products.....\Exp. 2,199 575 2,708 425 2,812 627 1,960 953 1,998 857 4,528 533 6,995 335
Total {S3S 48,583 51,477 51,282 55,598 M,307 55,125 53,883 58,381 53,227 60,181 M,m 53,911 81,132

One of the most important improvements, however, in the
farming-system is the greatly increased and varied manuring. Together with
the natural manure (farmyard-dung and night-soil) which has been
employed from olden times, sea-weed is used in many coast districts.
In the beginning of the decade 1851/60, the use of lime, ground bone,
and guano, phosphoric acid, and nitrogene began to spread; then
pu-drette with lime (commonly now mosslitter) came into vogue, too, but
it was not till the decade beginning 1871 that artificial manuring came
into more general use, after the most fertile districts of Sweden had
seen its necessity. The manufacture and import of artificial manures
of låte years have amounted as follows, in quintals:1

A Production. Imports. Exports. Consumption.*

Quintal!. Quintals. Qulnttli. Quintal».

1876/80 ..................96,222 284,382 9,720 370,884

1881 ’85 ..................301,372 430,885 30,412 638,286

1886,90 ..................446,224 682,734 19,306 955,412

1891/95 ..................69-2,255 1,093,577 44,900 1,482,475

1896 00 ..................1,143,258 1,553,372 33,120 2,398,324

In 1900..................1,288,065 1,495,504 1,251 2,531,320

1 A quintal = 197 cwts. — * From 1885 (inclusive) with subtraction of imports of raw
phosphate consumed for the home production of superphosphate. For 1876/84, such
subtraction cannot be made, in consequence of which the above figures are too high for these yeare.

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