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CATTLE. 557
Table 76. Imports and exports of Live Stock. By heads.
Average for the years Horses. Cattle. Sheep and goats. Pigs.
Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports.
1866,70........... 665 1,336 233 15,415 193 7,919 580 8,659
1871 75........... 1,582 2,218 662 20,107 208 17,694 2,822 16,044
11876 80........... 2,179 1,516 2,049 27,530 337 22,939 4,467 16,565
1881 85. , 1886 90........... 3,055 1,308 2,664 2,986 8,213 3,632 31,870 32,861 808 877 29,156 36,190 6,276 5,219 32,206 13,865
1891 95.......... 1,060 2,715 2,372 19,671 339 10,201 620 2,041
1896/00........... 1,961 1,716 2,068 10,075 108 5,543 759 4,554
Ia 1900 ......... 2,410 1,420 1,772 3,820 95 2,687 414 116
Much has been done by the Government and by private individuals
to improve horse-breeding in Sweden, but, as a rale, a definite plan
has been wanting in the work, and experiments have been made with
a iramber of foreign breeds, of which many have shown themselves
as not adapted to the conditions of the country. It is but of låte years
that the views on the subject have become settled, and that definite ends
have been adopted for breeding in different places; the time should,
consequently, not be far distant — considering the great interest with
which horse-breeding is now embraced — when Sweden will have
conform breeds of horses, fit for the uses intended, an honour to the
country and the breeders, and sought for in the markets of the world.
— Some figures concerning Sweden’s imports and exports of horses are
given in Table 76.
Cattle.
If confidence can be placed in the figures for the 16th century,
which are given in Table 75, page 550, Sweden should have possessed
at that distant time nearly one head of cattle for each of the
inhabitants of the country. In our days the relative figure is only about
half as large. If we regard only the number of cows, no
diminution has taken place during the whole of the 19th century, and while
the total has thus been fully maintained, the quality of the stock has
very considerably improved.
In general, Sweden is especially rich in cattle, so that out of all
the countries of Western Europe it is surpassed only by Denmark and
Finland, while Norway is about equal to Sweden. The four northern
countries thus occupy the foremost place in this respect in the western
half of our quarter of the globe. The relative number of cows in
the different parts of Sweden is shown by the map on page 558, which
embraces the frequency within every hundred, for the year 1889.
The history of cattle in our country presents a good many vicissitudes. The Law
of Uppland, A. D. 1296, describes Swedish cattle as being small, hornless, white
or whitish grey, often with dark spots. The Alpine, breed in Northern Sweden
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