DOI Artikel:
Szabó, Mátyás: Clearing of stony ground and cultivation in Sweden: an interplay between expertise, organisation and technique
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49001#0006
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M. SZABO
Fig. 1. Cultivated landscape. The fields were cleared from stones during the first half of the 19th
century and the stone used for stone walls. Kalleguta village. Koping parish, Oland, Sweden. Photo:
Nordic Museum 1929.
Bebautes Gelande. Die Felder wurden in der ersten Halfte des 19.Jahrhunderts von Steinen gereinigt,
und die Steine fur Mauern verwendet. Dorf Kalleguta, Pfarrbezirk Koping, Oland, Schweden.
cultivation very similar to the Swedish stone
clearing. With very few exceptions I will not
discuss these parallels.
I first became aware of the subject in the
province of Saskatchewan in Canada during
the years 1974-75. When the colonizers at
the turn of the century started to cultivate
the prairie, the stoniness of the ground was a
considerable technical cultivation problem -
something which to some extent is valid also
for today’s highly mechanised agriculture.
“In the annual work of the farmer the
collecting of boulders and stones hindering
ploughing is a task which has repeatedly to
be done. Gathering stone is a never-ending
job even to this day. However often a piece
of land has been cleared of stones, however
often it has been cultivated, it always has to
be cleared again. Even the fallow land has to
be cleared of stones when beginning to till it
in spring. What can the reason be that stones
appear and reappear on the land? It seems
M. SZABO
Fig. 1. Cultivated landscape. The fields were cleared from stones during the first half of the 19th
century and the stone used for stone walls. Kalleguta village. Koping parish, Oland, Sweden. Photo:
Nordic Museum 1929.
Bebautes Gelande. Die Felder wurden in der ersten Halfte des 19.Jahrhunderts von Steinen gereinigt,
und die Steine fur Mauern verwendet. Dorf Kalleguta, Pfarrbezirk Koping, Oland, Schweden.
cultivation very similar to the Swedish stone
clearing. With very few exceptions I will not
discuss these parallels.
I first became aware of the subject in the
province of Saskatchewan in Canada during
the years 1974-75. When the colonizers at
the turn of the century started to cultivate
the prairie, the stoniness of the ground was a
considerable technical cultivation problem -
something which to some extent is valid also
for today’s highly mechanised agriculture.
“In the annual work of the farmer the
collecting of boulders and stones hindering
ploughing is a task which has repeatedly to
be done. Gathering stone is a never-ending
job even to this day. However often a piece
of land has been cleared of stones, however
often it has been cultivated, it always has to
be cleared again. Even the fallow land has to
be cleared of stones when beginning to till it
in spring. What can the reason be that stones
appear and reappear on the land? It seems