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608 VI. AGRICDLTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
The Experiment Garden of the Swedish Moor-Association.
A very great number of chemical analyses have been made on the cultivation
value of the peat-soil, on moss-litter, and peat for fuel; to which may be added
analyses of grain, straw, hay, and the different kinds of fertilizers employed in the
experiments, the results of which are published in the Journal of the Society,
which appears every second month. Moors in different parts of Sweden are being
examined by the assistants, and practical advice about cultivation and other questions
is given to the farmer by the Society’s Farm Manager.
At the larger agricultural exhibitions, and at its own expositions the Society
presents an account of the results of its work; two annual meetings are held, at
which questions are discussed, and the summer meeting is usually held in
connection with excursions to some moor-land farm worth seeing.
The work of the Society is carried out by a director and four assistants.
The income was, in the year 1902, 65,447 kronor (State 15,000; contribution»
from Agricultural Societies, 16,500; fees of members, 11,688).
In the year 1903 there were 3,352 members.
Farmers’ Societies.
In most provinces of our country the farmers have found the forming of
Societies to be a powerful means of promoting their common interests. The
aim of these Societies — the agricultural clubs and the farmers’ societies — is to
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