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iii. rural husbandry.
Swedish Alpine Cattle.
Lowland cattle. The figures given above showing the milk-production and the
fat-percentage are no averages, but merely indicate what may normally be expected
of the cows belonging to the respective breeds. On an average, the cows of
the Swedish stock, taken as a whole, will scarcely yield on an average 2 000
kilogrammes of milk per year, with 3’50 % of fat, nor is the average live weight
more than about 400 kilograms.
Each of the Agricultural Societies’ districts forms a prize-competition district.
The Agricultural Society, or its executive, determines each year in which places
in the district the competition-meetings shall be held during the course of the
year, and the tract of country which is entitled to take part in the competitions
at each of these places. Each part of the prize-competition district is given
the opportunity of taking part in the competition at least once every three
years. Should the prize-competition not take place annually in the whole of
the district, the Agricultural Society, if it sees fit, may arrange special
prize-competitions for bulls within such parts of the district where, otherwise, there
would be no prize-competition that year.
The prizes are awarded by a jury, consisting of a chairman and two other
members. The chairman of each prize-competition district is appointed by the
Board of Agriculture on the recommendation of the respective Agricultural
Societies. The ordinary member of the jury who is to act at all the meetings
in the district, is appointed by the executive of the Agricultural Society. The
other member is nominated by the sub-division (Sw. gille, kretsavdelning,
hushållningsnämnd, kontrakt) of the Society within the district, and acts only at
the meetings held within the sub-district for which he has been elected.
As the number of prize-meeting places in each district is comparatively large,
the various areas affected by the competitions become so very small that it is
an easy matter for everyone to profit by the result of the prize-show and the
judging.
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