Industries And Wealth of Nations
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600 1,950 3,160 5,710 840 The total steam-power of the two kingdoms was equal to 790,000 horse in 1894, having quintupled since 1870 : it is now as 115 horse-power per thousand inhabitants, as com- pared with 150 horse-power in Grermany.
AGRICULTURE Wlien Bernadotte came to the throne in 1818 he found that 30 noblemen owned Norway, and 1200 gentlemen Sweden, under whom there were 70,000 farmers with lots averaging 20 acres, the whole cultivated area of the two kingdoms not exceeding 1,400,000 a...cres. The grain-crops seldom reached 50,000 tons, or 1 bushel per inhabitant, for which reason the bread of the rural population was made of sawdust and rye.
The nobles lived in riotous extravagance, until the banks would lend them no more money : thereupon a crisis ensued, Digitized by VjOOQIC SWEDEN AND NORWAY 221 and many large estates were bronght to the hammer. More than 10,000,000 acres were sold to the peasants, at prices averaging 17 pence per acre, and when Lang visited Sweden and Norway in 1830 he was surprised to find that "the con- dition of the rural classes was better than in Scotland." In 1840 the peasants had acquired no less than 16,000,000 acres, and the area under tillage was 5,200,000 acres, having quad- rupled in twenty years.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
600 1,950 3,160 5,710 840 The total steam-power of the two kingdoms was equal to 790,000 horse in 1894, having quintupled since 1870 : it is now as 115 horse-power per thousand inhabitants, as com- pared with 150 horse-power in Grermany.
AGRICULTURE Wlien Bernadotte came to the throne in 1818 he found that 30 noblemen owned Norway, and 1200 gentlemen Sweden, under whom there were 70,000 farmers with lots averaging 20 acres, the whole cultivated area of the two kingdoms not exceeding 1,400,000 a...cres. The grain-crops seldom reached 50,000 tons, or 1 bushel per inhabitant, for which reason the bread of the rural population was made of sawdust and rye.
The nobles lived in riotous extravagance, until the banks would lend them no more money : thereupon a crisis ensued, Digitized by VjOOQIC SWEDEN AND NORWAY 221 and many large estates were bronght to the hammer. More than 10,000,000 acres were sold to the peasants, at prices averaging 17 pence per acre, and when Lang visited Sweden and Norway in 1830 he was surprised to find that "the con- dition of the rural classes was better than in Scotland." In 1840 the peasants had acquired no less than 16,000,000 acres, and the area under tillage was 5,200,000 acres, having quad- rupled in twenty years.
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