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iii. rural husbandry.
4. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
In the State administration of Sweden, matters referring to farming and
•cattle-rearing have, up to 1900, belonged to the Department for Home
Affairs. That year, however, a special Department of Agriculture was
instituted, to which were assigned the matters above-mentioned, as well
as those of forestry and certain other allied questions. This new department
is divided into two bureaus, one of which deals with agricultural matters,
the other with forestry. It publishes a serious of "Communications" (Sw.
meddelanden) containing accounts of journeys for the purpose of special
study, supported by Government grants, reports of the measures taken for
the promotion of agricultural economy, fishery investigations, etc.
Before a measure, is laid before the Government it is, as a rule, remitted
"to that Government Office to which is proximately confided the final
preparatory discussions and other such work attached to the matter in
question. Measures connected with agriculture, the fisheries, etc., are
remitted therefore to the Board of Agriculture, which further investigates the
matter in question and, on the basis obtained by this inquiry, draws up
the final proposals which are laid before the Government.
The Board of Agriculture was established in 1890, and has the task of
.attentively following the condition of agriculture and its by-industries,
-and also of the fishing industry, and, as circumstances require, itself takes,
or proposes to the Government, the steps necessary for the promotion
of the industries mentioned. This Board consists of a head, with the title
of Director-in-Chief, and four members (Bureau Chiefs). In addition to
these, a veterinary surgeon is attached to the Board, to direct the
investigations respecting tuberculosis among the cattle-stock of the country and the
measures taken by the State for combating the disease. The Board of
Agriculture makes a yearly report to the Government of the work carried
out by the Boar.d itself and its subordinate institutions. This report is
printed and published, and the Board also issues a series of
"Communications" dealing with matters of importance for agriculture. The
regulations now in force for the Board of Agriculture were issued on October 2,
1908.
Before the institution of the Board of Agriculture, the administrative
•committee of the Academy of Agriculture had the task of deliberating on
the matters which are now under the control of the Board of Agriculture,
~so that the Academy occupied simultaneously a scientific and an
administrative position, which, consequently, was a peculiar one in many
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