There is some good grazing here and there in the forests but there is little arable or pasture land, particularly arable. After the grass has been cut on the boggy ground for one or at most two years, there is no further growth and bogmoss grows over it and the hog thus becomes barren. I think that this very extensive province could be cultivated just as much as Hälsingland which, after all, is extremely hilly and less tractable than it is here. I have seen great mosses of flow-meadow or utter bog that I am sure could become good meadowland if the water were provided with some small channel to allow it to drain away. They have experimented with this and say that no grass at all will grow afterwards since, because of the tussocks and ‘Juncus radice implicat’ [Deergrass], everything dries up. All that should be grubbed up and removed, then the land should be ditched and the peat turned over.