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CATTLE.
565
1898, the annual State grant has amounted to 75,000 kronor, a sum
which, however, only constitutes a fraction of the whole of the
expenses which, in 1901, amounted to a total of 212,075 kronor.
Most of the Agricultural Societies have divided their districts, on account of
these prize-competitions, into two divisions, in which competitions are held by
turns every other year. The prizes are awarded by a jury, the chairman of
which is appointed by the Board of Agriculture upon the proposition of the
Committee of the respective Agricultural Societies; the Committee itself chooses one of
the jury, who is also treasurer; together with these two persons, who officiate
throughout the whole of the Län, a third member also enters the jury at
every competition, chosen by the sub-division of the Society within whose district
the competition is being held. As the number of competition-places within each
district is comparatively large (from 20 to 25), the different exhibition-districts
become so small that every one can easily avail himself of the result of the
exhibition and the judgment passed.
Gotland cow.
The right to compete for prizes awarded for female cattle (cows and heifers
from^l Vä—10 years old) is restricted to owners or tenants of, at the most, 50
hectares of land, while on the contrary the competition for bulls is open to all.
Besides medals of different kinds for bulls, and prizes of varying amounts
for female cattle, every one of the latter is also given a so-called free-ticket
entitling the animal to a free covering by a prize-bull. As the prize-jury redeems
these free-tickets at a price of from 2—6 kronor each, according to the
quality of the bull, the owners of bulls are incited to win prizes for their animals.
Even for cows that have not won prizes at the time when they are covered
by a prize-bull, the jury pays the same covering-fee when the cows have been
exhibited and have taken a prize, if a certificate is given showing that they have
been covered by a prize-bull within a certain time before the cows take prizes.
Moreover, at these prize-exhibitions, each animal is branded with a mark of
approval, which can also be regarded as a kind of reward, as importance is often
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