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iir. rural husbandry.
Spirit-sale revenue given to the Agricultural Societies:
Calendar year Annually, kronor
1856-1860 ........’ ... 183 143
1861—1865 ........... 240 520
1866—1869 ........... 247 224
Sale year
V io 1870—so/i> 1875 ....... 364 334
\’io 1875—30/n 1880 ....... 860 224
of years nearly all the financial support received by agriculture was that
bestowed by the Agricultural Societies, the State contributing very little by means
of direct grants for this purpose. During the last few years, however, State
grants for the promotion of agriculture have become more and more liberal,
but these, too, have, on the whole, been distributed through the Agricultural
Societies. For example, nowadays, the societies receive State grants towards
premiums for agriculture, cattle, horses, and swine; for the fisheries
administration and the promotion of fisheries; for arranging courses of instruction for small
farmers, and journeys for the purpose of agricultural study; for pig-breeding
associations and pig-breeding stations; for the support of seed-control offices,
farm-agency- and agricultural book-keeping offices, and for the appointment of
agricultural experts and ambulatory farming instructors. Since the beginning
of 1913, the Societies have also received a State grant towards local investigations
for agricultural statistics and preliminary reports for fishery-statistics. A number
of Agricultural Societies receive grants from County Councils, too.
The revenue and expenditure of the Agricultural Societies since the beginning
of the year 1882 — the earliest date from which there are full data — are
shown by Table 31, and their share of the spirit-sale revenue received before
that date by the Table in the text.
The largest income of any of the Agricultural Societies in 1911 was that of
Malmöhus Lan’s Agricultural Society, amounting to <553 807 kronor; the least
was that of Kalmar Län (north) 57 220 kronor.
The accumulated capital of the Agricultural Societies amounted to:
Kr.
At the close of 1880 ................................3 454 831
» 5 » » 1890 ................................3 658 209
. » » > 1900 ................................5 414198
> » » » 1910. •............................7 347 839
» » > » 1912 ................................8 233 576
Inclusive of the funds for special purposes (formed by donations or otherwise),
the total sum amounted in the last-named year to, 9 030 287 kronor.
As is shown by the Tables, both the amount received from the sale of spirits
and that of the State grant have increased very considerably in the course of
time, and the Agricultural Societies, consequently, have had gradually increasing
sums to administer. It is undeniably a peculiar feature of Swedish
self-government that such considerable sums of public money are administered by these
private societies, which elect their members and appoint their governing bodies
themselves.
A special task lying within the province of the Agricultural Societies is the
procuring of preliminary data agricultural statistics. As was mentioned above,
the Agricultural Societies nowadays receive a State grant towards covering the
expenses of local investigations, which are so carried out that one-eight of each
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