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live-stock.
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Red-and-White Swedish Cattle ("Hero’
Edö, Askersund).
cipally from England. The results of these steps were so encouraging that, after the
death of Noring, the State considered that it would be to its advantage to
proceed in the same way. The State assembled central herds of cattle and flocks of
sheep of several different breeds, all of foreign blood, from which the breeders
should have the opportunity of procuring themselves improved breeding material.
These herds and flocks were under the superintendence of the Breeding-stock Board,
which was dissolved in 1871; after this date the superintendence of these
establishments, together with the administration of the grants towards their maintenance
was to be in the hands of the administrative committee of the Academy
of Agriculture. Almost contemporaneously with this, the breeding herds of the
State were dissolved and sold, with the exception of that of short-horned cattle
at Alnarp, which continued to exist until 1901. The money obtained by the
sale of the herds in question was made into a fund called the "breeding-stock
fund". Later on, this was turned into a general fund obtained by the sale of
the greater part of the breeding flocks, the whole being called "the fund
for the improvement of Swedish horned cattle and sheep", which, since the year
1890, has been administered by the Exchequer and the Board of Agriculture.
The money is employed for the promotion of cattle and sheep-breeding.
Goats, too, were introduced into Sweden from abroad, but these animals have
never occupied a place in agricultural economy comparable with that held by
horned cattle or sheep. In earlier times, however, there was a considerably
larger stock of goats than exists in our own days. As the forests rose in value,
the number of goats decreased, as these animals, which are very difficult
to keep within the limits of fenced fields, are the domestic animals that cause
most injury to the young forest trees. Of låte years, however, goat-rearing, in
connection with the "Own Home" movement, has become the object of great
interest and systematic development.
6—133179. Sweden II.
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