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TIIE EXTENT OP CULTIVATED GROUND. 43
Table 9. The Distribution of the Area of Cultivated Land, by Läns, in 1911.
L ä u Entire lund area 2 Sq. km Whereof in sq. kilometers In % of area
[-cultivated-]
{+cul- tivated+} land natural
meadow woods other land [-cultivated-] {+cul- tivated+} land [-meadow-] {+mea- dow+} woods other land
Stockholm 1 . . . . 7 474 1679 294 4104 1397 22-5 3-9 54-9 18-7
Uppsala...... a 121 1573 287 2 727 534 30-7 56 53 3 10-4
Södermanland . . . <! 2:!7 1773 138 3 992 334 28-4 2-2 64-0 5-4
Östergötland .... !) 968 2 492 597 6 079 800 250 6-0 610 8-0
Jönköping ..... 10 <>17 1399 986 5 759 2 473 13-2 9-3 54-2 233
Kronoberg..... 8 906 925 910 2 654 4 417 10-4 10-2 29-8 49-6
Kalmar...... 10 961 1 795 592 6 482 2 092 16-4 5-4 59-1 191
Gottland..... 3118 712 165 1419 822 22’8 5-3 45-5 26-4
Blekinge..... 2 806 652 147 1164 933 22-5 5-1 40-2 32-2
Kristianstad .... 6 222 2 502 389 2 535 796 40-2 6-3 40 7 12-8
Malmöhus..... 4 729 3 502 158 449 620 741 3Ä 9-5 13l
Halland...... 4771 1382 277 848 2 264 290 5-8 17-8 47-4
Göteborg och Bohus 4 897 1006 115 1294 2 482 206 2-3 26-4 50-7
Älvsborg ..... 11678 2 203 525 7 196 1754 18’9 4-5 61-6 15-0
Skaraborg..... 8075 3 452 283 3 076 1 264 42-7 3-5 38l 15-7
Värmland..... 17 549 2 048 451 13 632 1418 11’6 2-6 77-7 8-1
Örebro...... 8318 1566 292 5 355 1105 18-8 3’5 64-4 13-3
Västmanland . . . 6 436 1 544 215 3 505 1172 24-0 33 54-5 182
Kopparberg .... 28150 1043 958 20 719 5 430 3-7 3-4 73 6 19-3
Gävleborg..... 18 314 1023 779 14 944 1568 5-6 4-2 81-6 8’6
Västernorrland . . . 24128 854 483 19 921 2 870 3’5 20 82-6 11-9
Jämtland..... 47 512 578 385 29 187 17 362 1-2 0-8 61-4 36-6
Västerbotten.... 55 769 920 1800 27 500 25 549 1-7 32 49-3 45-8
Norrbotten..... 99 166 383 1 830 29 241 67 712 0-4 1-8 29-4 684
The whole Kingdom 411012 37 006 13 056 213 782 147 168 9-0 32 52-0 35 8
1 Stockholm city and län. — 2 Cf. Table 1, Part I with more recent figures.
The figures showing the number of farms does not include crofters’ allotments
and other non-independent holdings, the number of which amounted in 1911 to
138 677. The crofter-system has on good soils been considered as a form
of agricultural employment for farm-labourers which is extremely favourable both
for the landowner and for the crofter, but it has been falling out of use ever
since the middle of the 19th century. At first the crofters’ holdings were
thrown into the mother-estate again, in consequence of the growing opinion that
the land would give greater returns if it was cultivated together with the rest
of the estate. During the last few decades, it has become necessary to do this
more and more, in consequence of the difficulty experienced in finding labourers
willing to pay for their holdings in days’ work, and no difference has been caused
in this respect by the decided improvement in the position of the crofter brought
about by the new Tenants Act of June 14, 1907. Crofters’ holdings,
therefore, are being more and more turned into farms held on ordinary leases, with
the rent payable in money, in such cases where the land is not again thrown
into the mother-estate.
The extent of cultivated ground
in Sweden at the present day is shown by Table 9. More precisely stated,
it amounted in 1911 to 3 700 644 hectares, of which 45 719 hectares were
garden land and 3 654 925 hectares farmed land. In addition to this, there
were 1 305 698 hectares of natural meadow-land, so that, with the inclusion of
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