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iv. forestry.
the grand totals for 1900 and 1913 is explained by the fact that a great
deal of Crown leased farm-land has passed to the category of taxed land
now owned by the farmer (Sw. "skatte").
Under division A above, are given the forests-lands belonging to, or
leased out by, the State itself, while division B shows the land let for other
purposes. The Crown islands belong to the former category; the
Laplanders’ tax-fells ("lappskattefjäll") to the latter group. Some of the lands
given in group B do not belong to the State.
The direct revenues from the Crown parks, from forests reserved by the
State when leasing out Crown domains, and from the remaining
nonorganized Crown lands, etc. (the "Forest revenues" of the Public
Treasury) were as follows:
1890 1900 1913
Gross receipts........... 3 190 426 kr. 8 318 927 kr. 14 878 818 kr.
Expenses of forest administration . . 947 883 > 1 855 284 > 5 280 619 >
Net receipts............ 2 242 543 > 6 463 643 » 9 598 199 »
These figures show a considerable increase in the income received by
it was impossible for the State to carry on business enterprizes with
years, is partly the result of the unusually favourable state of the markets
everywhere in the world.
The Crown Parks.1 Influenced by the political-economical views, that
it was impossible for the State to carry on business enterprizes with
any great amount of success, the greater part of the Crown forests in the
southern provinces of Sweden, during the period 1810—30, was either
given away, or sold to private individuals at exceedingly low prices. In
the northern Läns, too, at the great "delimitation", when vast tracts of
land not under cultivation were divided between the Crown and private
owners, the rights of the Crown were for a long time quite neglected, and
sections of forest-land were apportioned to farms which were altogether
out of reasonable proportion to the value of the farm as a whole. After the
rise in the value of forest-products which everywhere took place about
the middle of the 19th century, the forests in question became the objects
of brisk speculation, and soon passed into other hands for the purpose of
cutting, very often without any regard to the future prosperity of the
farms. This called public attention to the fact that the State should, for
the future, take care of and utilize its supply of forest-land, especially as
it still possessed vast tracts of land in Norrland and in a part of Dalarne.
Consequently, ever since the decade 1860—70, the Swedish State has
acted on altogether new principles as regards the care of its forest domains,
and with very evident results, as will be seen when we state that, such a
short time back as in 1870, the total area of the Crown parks amounted
to no more than 425 794 hectares, while, in 1913, as shown above, the
domains in question covered 4 679 968 hectares. At the present time, this
area is steadily increasing, partly by the addition of the remaining Crown
1 Fully organized State forests.
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