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THE CULTIVATION OF CEREALS.
527
Proportional crops of the four principal cereal*. (By weight).
The crop per hectare is, in general, very high in Sweden, when
regard is paid to the northerly position of the country. Table (58 (p. 529)
shows that amongst the sixteen countries there included, Sweden
comes sixth in point of the relative crops of all chief kinds of seed
together and stands pretty close to Germany. Compared with the
average figure for Western Europe, there is reaped in Sweden per hectare
32 M more wheat, 21 % more rye, 13 % more barley, and 3 % more
oats. The so much inferior position of oats when compared with
that of the other kinds of corn can, possibly, be partly explained by
the fact that in Sweden oats are sown to a great extent upon ground
newly brought under cultivation. It is peculiar, however, that
autumn-seed gives a decidedly better result than spring-seed. — It is a
question, too, whether the figures for Sweden are not lower than they really
ought to be to a still greater degree than is the case in most of the
European countries.
Tablb 66. Crops of the various cereals. By quintals (à l’tt cwts).
Average for the
year*
Wheat. Rye. Barley. Oats. Mixed Corn. Legami- noate.
180120..................................180,000 2,095,000 2,100,000 1,250,000 670,000 325,000
1S2140..................................325,000 2,975,000 2,450,000 1,700,000 975,000 600,000
184160..................................525,000 4,010,000 2,890,000 2,710,000 1,143,000 765,000
186180..................................807.000 4,751,000 3,209,000 6,668,000 1,075,000 715,000
1*190..................................1,002,000 5,285,000 3,409,000 9,598,000 1,387,000 711,000
lfSlOO................................1,233,000 5,806,000 3,145,000 10,748,000 1,843,000 654,000
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