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excellent method first employed by Herr Swartz, on
the Hofgård near Norrköping in Sweden, was
introduced into Finland as well as into other northern
countries; and it was largely due to this that some
years later, in 1880, the owners of the “herregårdar”
or gentlemen farmers, began to export good
butter. On the other hand, after 1870, the peasants
had less butter to sell; this was the time when
they were beginning to make more money by selling
timber, and, as a consequence, they lived more
comfortably than formerly, and the peasant butter was
consumed in the country itself. From 1868 to
1884 the export barely exceeded 5000 tons a year,
but after the latter date Finland followed the
example of Denmark and introduced large creameries,
which collect the milk of the peasants, and make
it possible, by a scientific method of production, to
realise comparatively high prices. As a consequence
of this, the cattle are better tended, especially in
winter time, and agriculture in general is improved.
In Finland to-day, as in Denmark, thousands of these
creameries have been established, many of them being
of some considerable size; and this is the case not
only in the more advanced districts of the south-west,
and in the two Ostrobothnian provinces of Vasa and
Uleåborg, but also in the once backward north-eastern
district. The Finnish creameries are not formed into
co-operative associations so often as they are in
Denmark; a relatively large number of them have been
established by men of means, who buy the milk from
their neighbours. In connection with the creameries,
some skimming-centres have been established, and
many of the peasant dairies use hand-separators and
other improved machinery. Of late, however, the
co-operative movement is spreading in Finland. An
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