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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
systematic selection, to work for the improvement of this material into
a constant race possessing high milking properties, as well as
awakening an interest in, and spreading a knowledge of the rational
treatment and improvement of cattle. The breed at Stjernsnnd in Nerike,
which is the result of crossing the long-valued Vallaholm race with
Shorthorns, was taken as a standard for the race.
The very year after the establishment of the society, 62 bulls
and 788 cows were registered in its Herd-Books. These figures have
been steadily increasing; in 1903 they amounted to 215 bulls and
2,838 cows. In order still further to improve the breeding of cattle,
and to attain regularity in the system, bull-societies have been formed
in many places, in most of the Läns.
At the present time
the following breeds of
cattle are those most
generally spread in
Sweden: the Alpine
race in Norrland, where
in many Läns it is the
only type admitted to
competitions; the
Ayrshire in the central
and southern parts of
the country, where the
Shorthorn herds are
also found upon many
estates; the
Red-and-white Swedish cattle,
more or less
resembling the Shorthorn or
Ayrshire types, are spread throughout the central part of Sweden; the
Lowland cattle, principally East Frisian, are found best developed in
Skåne; finally, the old light-yellow Swedish race is found under the name
of the Gotland breed on the island of Gotland, where an attempt is
being made to improve it by pure breeding. There are, besides,
excellent herds of red Danish cattle in Halland; Jersey cattle, of which
some breeds have been imported during the last decade; and, on some
estates, the Algau race. Naturally, there are everywhere found in the
country products of all possible and impossible crossings, which are a
consequence of that want of order which prevailed in the direction of
cattle-breeding before the organization of the prize-giving system.
As låte as in the decade 1851/60, the imports of dairy-farm produce
were still pretty large, so that on an average, during the years 1854/58,
there were imported 510,100 kilograms of butter, 425,100 kilograms of
cheese, and 2,300 head of cattle, whilst cereals were exported. In the
Ayrshire cow.
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