The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

08 SCANDINAVIA.is higher in the towns than the country, the urban population having increasedmore than 10 per cent., the rural one-twentieth only between the years 1855 and1870. The emigration movement has also acquired some importance since themiddle of the century, while immigration is mainly confined to the natives of theold Danish provinces now annexed to Germany.Agriculture, which supports three-fifths of the people, is in a flourishing state,although more than one-third of the soil consists of dunes, marshes, waste orfallow lands. Barley and rye are more generally cultivated than wheat, but thelatter has shown an upward tendency since the abolition of the corn laws inEngland, the greatest grain market in the world. Other farm produce has alsoreceived a stimulus, and vegetables, fruits, cattle, and butter are now regularly