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VI. AGRICDLTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
Price» of best export Butter, per quintal.1
Kronor. Knur.
Cheese is not an article of either import or export to any large
extent (cf. Table 79, p. 571). The imports, as a rule, exceed the
exports and the source is mainly Germany.
The yalue of the exports of dairy produce amounts yearly to from 40 to
50 million kronor; that of the imports to scarcely one million kronor.
The consumption in the country itself may be estimated, for 1900,
to 7-2 kilogr. of butter (besides about 2-i kilogr. of margarine), and 2 i
kilogr. of cheese, — whole and half-milk. (The figure 5-54 kilogr. per
inhabitant of butter, given p. 156, refers to the middle of the eighties).
Measures for the Furtherance of Dairy-Farming.
During the last few decades, both the State and the Agricultural
Societies have endeavoured in many ways to foster and support the
dairy-farming industry. The Government has appointed an instructor and
a learner in Dairy-Economy and maintained an agent in England (since
1886), to superintend and assist the export of dairy produce from
Sweden; furthermore, the State provides instruction in this branch in
both higher and lower agricultural schools, and grants pecuniary
aid to butter-testing and cheese exhibitions. On an average, the total
annual expenditure of the State for these purposes is about 50,000
kronor.
The Agricultural Societies are instrumental in various ways in
promoting the interests of dairy-farming; they appoint itinerant teachers
on the subject, they give grants to schools and support to exhibitions,
they advance money for the erecting of dairies, etc. One Län, that of
Östergötland, maintains, too, a bacteriological institution, which among
other things provides pure cultures of souring agents.
1 The figures for the years 1900, 1901, and 1902 were resp. 192, 194, and 190 kronor.
One hundred kronor per quintal = 2’8 £ per cwt.
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