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THE SWEDISH MOOR-ASSOCIATION.
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Since 1903 the Society has its own Institute building in Jönköping, containing
chemical and botanical laboratories, offices for the director and assistants, a library
and a museum containing objects relating to peat and turf from an agricultural
and industrial point of view.
Adjoining this house there is an experimental garden, where pot and plot
experiments on a large scale are carried out to elucidate different questions
respecting the employment of Phosphates, Potash salts, and Nitrogen manures on
different peat-soils, and for different plants; liming and the use of sand and
clay on peat-soil, etc. In the garden there are both zinc pots and larger vessels
of wood (pits) filled with peat-soil; and the experiments are carried out with
scientific accuracy. At present there are 855 pits with an area of 0’3 to 1 square
meter each, and 172 zinc pots.
Main farm of the Swedish Moor-Association, Flahult.
At Flahult, 12 kilometers from Jönköping, the Society has an Experimental
Farm on moorland, where field experiments are carried out. The whole area
of the farm is 125 hectares (300 acres), of which 34 hectares (85 acres) are
at present cultivated.
At Flahult there are also two small moor farms arranged after the German
model, in order to raise interest in the moor cultivation question. Each of these
moor farms embraces 8 hectares, with a dwelling house and stable. The farm
is worked according to the regulations laid down by the Society.
Further field experiments have been made in different parts of the country,
their number being, in the year 1902, 45, in 16 different Läns. The
northernmost, now discontinued, was situated at Korpilombolo, on a latitude of 67° and
was thus the most northerly in Europe.
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