Iceland 1930

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Identifikator:: 1830571079

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221162

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Iceland 1930

Edition:: 2. ed.

Place of publication:: Reykjavík

Publisher:: Ríkisprentsmiđjan Gutenberg

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 193 S.; Tab., Kt., Taf.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Rural husbandry

Collection:: Economics Books

34 In some of the towns (coastal villages) where the soil is sandy, considerable quantities of pofafoes are grown, and in southern Iceland, aspecially, almost every farm has a little garden where potatoes and swedes are raised. Vet the potato and swedes areas do not exceed 500 hectares in all. In 1923 —1927 the average annual potato crop amounted lo 3200 tons, that of Swedish turnips to 1100 tons. Potatoes and swedes are grown for human food only, though in far from sufficient quantities to meet the country’s requirements, and a great deal of pota- toes is therefore imported every year. In 1923—1927 the average im- port of potatoes was 2100 tons, or some 40 per cent. of the quantity consumed. Here and there throughout the country there are extensive peat bogs, yielding a pretty good quality of peat which is much used for fuel, especially in the rural districts; and during the present century, up fo the Great War, as much as 250000 horse-loads were dug every year. But after the War broke out the output of peat increased enormously, owing to the excessively high prices of coal and the risk with which its importation was attended. In 1918 the quantity of peat dug reached its maximum (577 000 horse-loads), but thenceforward it has been gradu- ally decreasing, and had in 1928 come down to 285000 horse-loads. The forests are used not only as sheep-runs, but are also cut for fuel. During the first decade of the present century it is considered that about 9000 horse-loads of fire-wood were cut, on the average, every year. This in 1911—1915 increased to 13000 horse-loads per annum, in 1916—1920, to 22000, and in 1923—1927, to 24 000. LIVE STOCK According to statistics the live stock in 1928 was as follows: Sheep . Cattle . Horses . . Goats Poultrv . 527 140 30023 52 245 2843 16018 In proportion to the number of inhabitants Iceland has a larger stock of sheep than any other European country, or five to six sheep to each person, whereas in the countries (Norway and Esthonia), com- ing next after Iceland in this respect, the number of sheep amounts to no more than about 60 per cent. of the number of population. The kind of sheep reared in Iceland is of Norwegian origin, and belongs to the species most common in northern Europe (Ovis Brachvura

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