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31 III. RURAL HUSBANDRY.
was the issue in 1749, at the instance of Jakob Faggot, director of surveying,
of a Regulation, in accordance with which the surveyors had to endeavour to
induce the landowners so to carry out the division of the estates that the
parcels of land falling to each owner might become as large as possible. By
the Regulations for the General Re-partition of Land (storskifte), which were
issued on April 5, 1757, another step was taken in the same direction,
as the Regulation in question gave every landowner in the village full and
unrestricted liberty to demand such a general re-partition. But the work of
the general re-partition of the land went on but slowly, and fulfilled its
purpose but imperfectly, as it was impossible to reduce the parcels of land
belonging to one owner, against his will, to a lower number than four lots of
cultivated land and as many of meadow. The insight of the advantages to be
gained by the aggregation of the plots of land became stronger and more general,
however, and it was partly as a result of the brilliant economic success that had
crowned the efforts made by the Scanian landowner, Baron Rutger Maclean, so to
divide his estate of Svaneholm that each tenant obtained the whole of his land
in one piece, that there were issued, in 1803 for Skåne, in 1804 for Skaraborg
Län, and in 1807 for the whole of the country, Regulations for the Separate
Re-partition of Land (enskifte), according to which each landowner in a village was
given the right to demand to have all his share of reclaimed land in one piece.
Manor house, Gammelbo in Vestmanland.
But such a radical reform met with great difficulties and with much
opposition, however, and so a fresh Regulation for a re-partition of the land
was issued on May 4, 1827, according to which by legal re-partition of
land (laga skifte), the parcels that were to fall to the share of the various
claimants should form as connected plots as their character and situation
permitted, without injury to any of those sharing the land. It was in accordance
with this Regulation that there was carried out, during the two following
decades — although very often it met with great opposition — the re-partition
of the land over the greater part of the country south of Norrland and Dalarne,
this step paving the way for various important improvements in agriculture (cf.
also Official Cartography).
During the first half of the 19th century, the efforts made to increase the
crops were chiefly directed to bringing new tracts of land under the plough for
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