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public and private institutions for the advancement of agriculture. 123
respects. An account of the organization and present activities of the
Academy has already been given (Part. I).
There is a large number of officials under the Board of Agriculture,
who have the principal part of their work in various districts of the
country. First among these are the State consultative experts (Sw.
Statskonsulenterna), each of whom has to give the public
information and advice in that branch of agricultural economy for which he
is appointed, and also to assist the Board of Agriculture in the
execution of its duties. There are at present 9 of these officials; one for each
of the following branches: cattle-breeding, dairying, pig-breeding,
sheep-breeding, small-farming, seed-culture, and the combating of
tuberculosis among cattle, and two for home-sloyd. When no State consultative
expert for agriculture is appointed, the State, in order actively to
encourage the appointment of such experts by the various Agricultural
Societies, has made a grant of 62 500 kronor, as a contribution towards the
payment of 26 agricultural experts, on the condition that the travelling
and subsistence allowances of the experts in question are paid by the
Agricultural Societies, the County Council, or some other authority.
Work intimately connected with that performed by the State
consultative experts is carried out by the State peat-officials — consisting
of two peat engineers and three peat-assistants — the State fisheries
officials — five fishery superintendents, each with his special district; a
fishery assistant, a fishery engineer and a fishery bursary-holder, and 23
State agricultural engineers — each with his special district — who are
assisted by 4 extra agricultural engineers and 5 agricultural
bursary-holders. The chief duties of the agricultural engineers are confined,
however, to helping farmers in drawing up plans for drainage, the
cultivation of new areas, etc.
Among the associations formed for the promotion of agriculture and
its by-industries, the Agricultural Societies occupy the most prominent
place. There will be found on p. 142 a detailed account of their
organization, labours, etc.
The Board of Agriculture stands in very close connection with these
societies, and has very frequent recourse to them for the investigation of
questions concerning the various branches of agricultural economy. Since
— as is usually the case — the Board of Agriculture asks for the opinion
of all the Societies with regard to any certain question, it obtains in
this manner a very good view of the idea of the importance, etc. of the
question, held in different parts of the country.
In order to bring about co-operation and collaboration between the
various Agricultural Societies, and to give them an opportunity of
discussing questions of common interest, representatives of each of the
Societies meet every year in Stockholm. From this institution — The
Meeting of the Deputies of the Agricultural Societies — both the
Government and the Board of Agriculture are accustomed to call for expressions
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