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THE CULTIVATION OF CEREALS. 533
Table 72. Imports and exports of Barley. By quintals à 1’97 cwts.
Average for the years Imports. Exports. Excess of exports.
1816/20..............60,826 2,079 — 58,747
1821/30..............19,085 14,730 — 4,355
1831/40..............39,304 18,212 — 21,092
1841/50..............8,618 67,121 + 58,503
1851/60..............33,968 191,025 + 157,057
1861/70 ............50,048 243,702 + 193,654
1871/80..... 77,372 349,560 + 272,188
1881/90..... 80.330 235,467 + 155,137
1891/95..... 72,106 39,625 — 32,481
1896’00..... 52,612 846 - 51,766
In 1900.... 103,702 1,457 — 102,245
the seventeen other Läns it was no less than 65-6 kg., which last-named
figure is, undeniably, uncommonly high. — In the Län of Malmöhus, on
an average for the years 1886/95, wheat is stated to have weighed
78-8 kg. per hi., rye 74-i kg., barley 66*7 kg., and oats 50-7 kg. Still
higher figures for barley are shown by the Län of Kalmar, with 68-7
kg., and Gotland with 69-o kg. Barley from the islands of Gotland
and Öland is, too, very much in demand at the breweries. — The
above-mentioned circumstance, that the weight of barley is less in
Northern Sweden than elsewhere in the kingdom, holds good, too, for
other crops even if not in so great a degree as for barley. Oats are
harvested in the four northernmost Läns, to a great extent, only as
green crops, and the more so the farther one comes to the north.
The Import and Export of cereals are illustrated in their entirety
by Table 64. Data for the four chief kinds of cereals are given in Table
70—73. First, as concerns wheat, Table 70 shows that the import of
that cereal upon a large scale commenced in the sixties. Since a duty
was placed upon that import in 1888, the import of flour has decreased.
At present the duty amounts to 3-70 kronor per quintal (2 shillings per
ewt) for unground wheat, and 6-50 kronor per quintal flour (3 shillings
8 d. per cwt). — The import of rye, which also greatly increased after
1860, has diminished of låte years, probably on account of the duty
being the same for rye as for wheat. In this case, too, it is the
import of flour which has most decreased. — A certain export of barley
has long taken place; if not a very important one, still it has been
pretty constant, but of låte years this export, too, has almost ceased.
Table 73. Imports and exports of Oats. By quintals à 1-97 cwts.
Average for the yean Imports. Exports. Excess of exports.
1816/20..........5,214 4,308 — 906
1821/30..........3,954 15,806 + 11,852
1831/40..........7,992 39,994 + 32,002
1841/50..........109 146,697 + 146,588
1851/60..........2,099 426,261 + 424,162
1861/70..... 2,851 1,381,059 +1,378,208
1871/80..........7,970 2,405,272 + 2,397,302
1881/90..........29,307 1,977,100 +1,947,793
1891/95..........21,730 1,410,318 +1,388,588
1896/00..........213,740 347,664 + 133,924
In 1900..... 587,888 125,969 — 461,919
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