Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - III. Rural Husbandry. Introd. by H. Juhlin Dannfelt - 1. Agriculture. By H. Juhlin Dannfelt
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
root-crops. 67
Table 23. Cultivation of Potatoes and Root-crops. Average for 1901—10.
A r e a Crops
Län Hectares In % of whole Kingdom’s Quintals In % of whole Kingdom’s
{+pota- toes root- crops pota- toes root- crops+} potatoes [-root-crops potatoes root-crops potatoes root-crops sugar-beet potatoes root-crops sugar-beet-] {+root- crops sugar- beet pota- toes root- crops sugar- beet+}
Stockh. 5 872 578 3-83 082 648 887 169 626 — 4-39 171 —
Uppsala 3 955 555 2’58 0-79 359 311 165 143 — 243 166 —
Söderm. 4 261 1 161 278 164 340 372 350 289 — 230 353 —
Österg. 6 361 2 607 4 15 369 589 667 529 252 113 497 3 99 532 1-37
Jönköp. 7 224 2 050 471 290 685 657 548 306 -j 4-63 5 52 —
Kronob. 7 986 1084 5’21 1’53 861337 217 005 — 5-82 2 18 —
Kalmar 7 420 2 416 4’84 342 632 378 398 225 81539 427 4-01 099
Gottl. 2834 3135 1-85 444 253050 153973 479063 1 71 1’55 579
Blekinge 8 668 1373 5’66 1-94 870 016 300 631 80 787 588 302 0’98
Krist. 22 677 11 980 14*80 16 95 2 3131031 820 685 1096 821 15-63 18-32 13-27
Malmöhus 12 231 30 274 7’98 4284 1367 530 2174 190 6 279 738 9-24 21-88 75-95
Halland 5 549 3 201 3-62 4 53 567 226 920 308 91 155 383 9-26 l-io
Göto. Boh. 4 074 411 266 058 428 353 85156 — 2-90 0-86 —
Älvsb. 9 064 1129 592 1-60 812 007 255 255 — 5-49 2-57 —
Skarab. 9 654 4 596 630 6’50 684 343 876 725 45 726 4*62 8 82 055
Värml. 8 477 548 5’53 0’78 896 580 74 725 - 6’06 0 75 —
Örebro 5 799 1305 3-79 1’85 442 407 288176 — 2 99 2 90 —
Västm. 3 220 562 2-10 080 284 909 144 328 — 1-93 1-45 —
Kopparb. 3 495 735 228 1 04 475193 273 495 — 3 21 2 75 —
Gävleb. 3 661 159 2’39 0-22 410 597 65 283 — 2 7 8 0 66 —
Västern, j 4 706 238 3 07 034 353 564 36 113 — 2 39; 0-36 —
Jämtl. 1646 225 107 032 141095 43 970 — 0"95| 0-44 —
Västerb. 2 941 252 1 92 0’36 227 720 19 943 — 1-54| 020 —
Norrb. 1471 89 096 Q-12 151531 28 205 — 1 02| 0 28 —
WbSngdom 153 246j 70 663 100 oo| 1OO 00 14 796833|9939 007|s 268326 100 oo; 100 00 lOO oo
potato as an article of food, and perhaps an equally great experience of its
usability as raw material in the manufacture of spirits, brought about, from this
time, a rapid increase in its cultivation, so that, at the middle of the century
mentioned, the area devoted to the cultivation of the potato had risen to about
80 000 hectares. At the close of the century, this area had been almost doubled.
The increase in the harvest, which is shown by the diagram on p. 68, has been
in about the same ratio as the increase in area.
The increase in the crop-produce per area-unit which is shown to have taken
place during the beginning of the 19th century was succeeded by a decline,
which can probably be explained by the fact that the cultivation of the potato
was removed from the small plots of kitchen-gardens ground out to the fields,
where less attention was paid to the land and the care of the plants. It is
only during later times that the returns per hectare have shown a decided increase,
which has been mostly the result of the introduction of new and more productive
varieties, chiefly of foreign origin; probably, too, it has been in part the result
of improved manuring, especially in the most southerly parts of the country,
where artificial manures have come into fairly general use also for this
vegetable. The potato-crop per area-unit in Sweden is, however, still fairly low as
compared with the state of things in the rest of Western Europe (see Table 13).
That this is not the result of the northerly position of Sweden, or other
unfavourable natural circumstances is, however, quite probable, as the
potato-harvests in neighbouring countries are greater than in Sweden — in Norway being
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
