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CATTLE.
561
The money obtained by the sale of the breeding-stocks of cattle and sheep
owned by the State, now forms a fund from which prizes of honour to an amount
of 10,000 kronor are distributed at the General Swedish Agricultural Shows for
the finest herds of cattle and flocks of sheep.
During the period just mentioned many breeding-stock farms were established
by private persons and by agricultural societies, with animals of several different
breeds; some of these farms have been of great use, others again of little value.
After the Ayrshire breed had fallen into some discredit owing to its
susceptibility to sickness, the black-and-white cattle from Holland came into fashion and
were soon widely spread throughout the country. Experience has shown, however,
that this breed is not in general suitable for the climate and nature of Central
Sweden, and still less for that of the northern part of the country, for which
reason it is kept at present principally in Skåne.
Cow of the Sivedish Alpine race.
Of låte years the interest in the improvement of cattle has been
pretty lively in our country. An important step in this direction has
been taken by the introduction of a regular system of prizes, by which
means greater regularity in breeding has been brought about in
different parts of the country and an inducement occasioned to keep only
such breeds of cattle as are suitable for the different districts. A special
account of this question is given below, on page 564.
Attention was also drawn by degrees to the fact that on many
estates there were conform breeds worth improving. These breeds
had sprung up by crossing the Swedish red cattle with foreign races,
amongst which the short-horned variety must be considered as having
been the most active. In 1892, a great number of farmers in Central
Sweden formed the Society for the breeding of Bed-and-white Swedish
cattle, for the purpose of searching out and perpetuating the
breeding-material in the country consisting of red-and-white milkers, and, by
Stceden. 36
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