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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
That, however, not only the number of cows and of cattle has in
general increased, but that their quality has also been highly improved,
has already been shown in detail. Amongst the measures which have
most contributed to this fact, is the before mentioned organized
arrangement of prize-competitions. This question having been the subject
of great attention, and deservedly so in every respect, a somewhat
more detailed account of the matter may here find a place.
Lowland bull.
Measures of different kinds have been taken in our country in past
times to improve cattle-breeding, and to awaken interest in the matter.
A considerable time elapsed, however, before any method of procedure
was found which showed itself to be quite suitable for Swedish
conditions; the first system of which this could be said was the one
elaborated by Captain Sigge Flach (which was adopted in 1882 by the
Agricultural Society of the Län of Skaraborg) for prize-competitions of cattle,
which, better than any other, proved itself able to carry with it the
great mass of the small farmers of the country too, in the work of
raising the breeding of cattle. Particularly simple in its plan, it rests
upon practical, well considered principles, which is best proved by the
fact that, even before the State had voted the slightest contribution to
cover the expenses, it had been adopted with success in 17 different
Läns; in 1892, when the State for the first time voted a grant, this
number rose at once to 25, and during the last years,
prize-competitions upon the Skaraborg system, as it is nowadays commonly called,
are annually held by all the 26 Agricultural Societies of Sweden. From
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