Excerpt from Short Review of Agriculture and Forestry in Norway: And of Official Efforts for Their Advancement
Agriculture, in the most extensive signification of the word in the Norwegian language, embraces the utilisation of the surface of the country, including not only the actual soil but also the forests, mountain ranges and freshwater lakes and rivers. Thus, agriculture in Norway comprises the working of the farms together with cattle-raising and dairying, horticulture, forestry, the hunting of game and fishing, as well as the breeding and keeping of reindeer. Of these pursuits the utilisation of the soil itself and of the forests plays an altogether predominating part from an economic point of view.
In general, however, the term agriculture is employed only with respect to the utilisation of the soil for farming and gardening operations, while the expression forestry is used of everything pertaining to the conservation and management of woods and forests. To forestry belongs also the preservation and pursuit of game.
Norway lies very far to the north and extends from south to north over a great number of degrees of latitude, namely, from 58° to 71° north latitude. This situation of the country necessitates a great variation with respect to the utilisation of the soil. Whereas, south of the polar circle there can be grown ordinary agricultural products and in the more southerly parts of the country also the more sensitive plants, such as wheat and garden produce, the most northerly part of the country is mostly given over to the cultivation of grass.
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