T able 17. Imports and Exports of Wheat. Quintals.
A n n u a l l y
I m p o r t s E x p o r t s
Excess of
imp,,. (—),
grain flour to ta li grain flour to ta li exp. (+)
1816—2 0 ................ 14 989 51 15 057 537 570 1297 — 13760
1821—4 u ................ 1456 104 1595 5 423 1 889 7 942 + 6 347 I
1841—60 ................ 17 370 5 384 24 549 35 558 817 36647 + 12 098 ,
1861—80 ................ 32 985 178 416 270873 78 684 17 019 101376 i s t i 169 497 f
1881—90 ................ 459 427 283 904 837 966 9 593 44194 68518 WM 769 448
1891—00 ................ 1 253 356 159 168 1465 580 271 8 435 11518 — 1454 062
1901—10 ................ 1969990 75 776 2071025 701 831 1809 — 2 069 216
1911........................ 1723 597 70 356 1817 405 1611 5016 8 299 1 - 1809 106 j
1912........................ 1710 540 66 045 1798600 2 094 4 394 7 953 — 1 790 647
1913........................ 1998153 86 834 2113932 — 2 066' 2 754 H 111 178
1 The flour is here increased by 1/s of its weight, in order to reduce it to unground grain
spring wheat chiefly in Halland and in the southern parts of the Lans of Alvs-
borg and Kalmar, spring rye mostly in Smaland and Blekinge and in the Lans
of Kristianstad and Alvsborg. Of the entire cultivated area in 1911, 487 730
hectares, or 13*3 %, were devoted to winter seed; 1 188 487 hectares, or 33 °/oy
to spring seed.
Of wheat, which is cultivated practically only on the clayey plains and chiefly
in Skane, Gottland, Oster- and Vastergotland, and in the provinces round Lake
Malaren, there were formerly cultivated chiefly old native sorts suited to the
climate, but which gave somewhat poor returns. During the last two decades, ;
several selected kinds of this grain, derived chiefly from the Swedish Seed !
Association’s cultivation establishment at Svalov and some of these improved
kinds of grain, such as the grenadier- and extra squarehead wheat have,! in
Skane, for the most part supplanted' the ordinary native wheat. Farther ]
to the north, where the climate is a more severe one, there have also b|en
tried new sorts of wheat, selected at Svalov, such as “selected squarehead” ;
(Sw. renodlad squarehead), Bore- and Poodle-wheat, which surpass the ordinary
sorts as far as regards productiveness, but these improved sorts being less hardy
than the old native sorts, they have not ousted the latter, which still predominate; j
among these are, for example, in the Lake Malaren districts, a white-eared velvet i
wheat, mixed with a red-eared smooth wheat, while here and there, on stiff ■;
soils, in Skaraborg Lan especially, the very stiff-strawed club-wheat is much
cultivated.
Rye is cultivated very generally in Southern and Central Sweden, onlall '
soils, but especially on loam-, sand- and gravelly land. On the whole, rye
occupies a greater area in the eastern lans than in the western, this being
partly the result of rye being less susceptible than spring-seed to the drought
which prevails in these parts of the country during the early summer. < In
Upper Norrland, winter rye is little cultivated, but gains in extent in the
same proportion that rotation of crops with fallow is introduced there. ~ In
the southern part of the country, winter rye has in general been cultivated,
with short clubby grains, derived in part from the probsteij rye that has been
introduced; the rye cultivated in the northern part of the eountry has generally
smaller and longer grains. In the southern and central parts of the
country, the native sorts have, in no inconsiderable degree, been supplanted tby
the German Petkus-rye, which has been introduced of late years and gives better
returns, but which, on the other hand, is not hardy enough for Northern Sweden.
In the latter part of the country there is employed, although on a smaller scale
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