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(1914) [MARC] Author: Joseph Guinchard
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Swedish Red-Polled Cattle (Bohuslän.)

The right of competing for every kind of prize is restricted to owners of
cattle the total area of whose cultivated land does not exceed 40 hectares, and
who . carry on farming as their principal or chief auxiliary source of livelihood.
The Board of Agriculture, however, can restrict the above right, so that it may
benefit only those cattle-owners the total area of whose cultivated land does not
exceed a certain area, smaller than the one just mentioned but not less than
20 hectares. Other owners of cattle are entitled to exhibit to the prize-jury
both bulls and cows, though they can only be awarded prizes for the former
animals and, even then, do not obtain money prizes. Cows are nowadays
seldom awarded money-prizes, but usually receive only "free-tickets", of which
two kinds are awarded: one a double-perforated free-ticket, the other a plain
free-ticket. The former class of ticket consists of two parts, one a
covering-ticket, and the other a covering-certificate. The covering-ticket, when
the cow has been covered by a prize-bull, is given to the owner
of the latter animal, and the second half of the ticket is kept by the owner
of the cow. Both the covering-ticket and the covering-certificate are redeemed
by the Agricultural Society for a sum and at a time fixed by the Society. The
plain free-tickets consist of nothing but a covering-ticket, which is redeemed in
the same way. The owners of the prize-bulls are awarded medals, cups, or
monetary prizes of varying values or amount, according to the class of the
animal, but there are also three kinds of extra prizes, viz., breeding-prizes for older
bulls, prizes of honour for younger bulls, and extra prizes for bulls which are
the property of bull-societies. Thanks to these prizes and to the
covering-certificates, the bull-societies are able to manage without asking their members for
any considerable contributions. The so-called "herd-prize" (Sw. flockpris), which
is awarded at the prize-meetings for not less than 3 cows adjudged worthy of
a prize, also contributes to this satisfactory result. At these exhibitions, too,
every animal that gains a prize is branded with a mark, showing that it has
been distinguished in this way; this branding can, in a way, also be considered

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