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iii. rural husbandry.
been carried out free of cost to small farmers, formerly in two läns every year,
and now in three läns, for a period of 20 days each year.
Finally, as regards the work of supplying information, the Association, issues
a publication appearing 6 times a year, with a total of about 500 pages, and
-containing an account of the work done, the results obtained from the
experiments, and the experience gained both at home and abroad in the field of
moor-cultivation and the peat industry.
Experimental Garden of the Swedish Moor Culture Association, Jönköping.
Pamphlets, too, are frequently printed and distributed on a very large scale,
in addition to which the officials of the Association publish a number of articles
in the daily press and in Swedish and foreign agricultural and technical journals.
Two ordinary meetings are held evers’ year, one of them in some district with
an abundance of moors, where practical, illustrative work is carried out,
excursions are made, and lectures are given. Up to the close of 1913 the
Association has had summer metings at 23 different places within 21 läns. The autumn
meetings at Jönköping — at which lectures are given — are usually held in
•connection with some exhibition.
Besides this, the Association often takes part in exhibitions of greater or lesser
importance, and this has proved to be a very effective way of spreading
information on the subject of peat-cultivation.
Lecturing tours are made every winter by the culture-engineers of the
Association, who, yearly, have to visit 3 different läns, and to give at least 10
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