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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
In Norrland and the western provinces there exists a native breed
which is also prevalent in Norway, where it is found best and most
typically in the districts around Lake Mjösen, and on the southern
slopes of the Dovre mountain. Being powerful, with close forms, hardy
and contented, this breed, which ought to be called the northern breed,
but which is known as the Norwegian, or North Swedish, is of great
value for the forest and mountainous districts of the country. In many
of the northern Läns of the country, premiums are now given for
stallions of the above-named race only.
There formerly existed in great numbers on the island of Gotland
the small horses called »Hussar», but they gradually disappeared in
consequence of the »re-parceling» (see p. 512), so that at present they
are only few in nurnben
Skåne half-blood horse.
In Vestergötland and in several other provinces, the farm-horse is
the result of a crossing with the Ardennes breed, which is employed
more and more lor the improvement of the farm-horse in the central
and southern parts of the country. The breeding of horses of noble
race flourishes best in Skåne, but good warm-blooded animals are also
bred elsewhere in the country. This branch of horse-breeding has,
however, of låte been superseded in places where it was formerly
carried on with interest, by the breeding of cold-blooded draught-horses,
less difficult and not requiring such thorough knowledge of the subject.
The cultivation of noble breeds has, however, been making progress in
certain districts, owing partly to an increased demand for remounts.
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