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iii. rural husbandry.
be considered as being any expression of the average milking for all the cows
in these various parts of the country, as of course, the Control Associations
embrace the better class animals, the feeding of which, too, has been carried
out in accordance with the most rational methods. In round numbers, the milk
production of Sweden is estimated at somewhat more than 3 milliards of
kilograms.
The uses to which the milk is put. The milk is used for human food,
for rearing and fattening calves, for rearing pigs, and for manufacturing butter
and cheese; a small quantity is exported, chiefly in the form of cream, which
is sent to Germany. Of the b3r-products obtained in the manufacture of butter
and cheese — skimmed milk and whey ■— a small quantity is used for the
making of serine (dried milk or milk-meal), caseine, and lactine; the greater part
goes to calves and pigs; a part of the skimmed milk is made use of as food for
human beings. Only approximate estimations can be given of the amounts of
milk employed for each of the above purposes. The amount of milk taken for
direct consumption and culinary purposes is estimated, from some general
observations, as amounting to 0"5 kilogram daily, per head of the population,
which, for the whole country, gives a consumption of a little more than 1
milliard kilograms per annum. Only a small amount of milk — about 100
million kilograms per year — is used for calves and pigs. The amount of
milk employed in the manufacture of butter and cheese would, thus, amount
to 2 milliards kilograms yearly.
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Plan of Co-operative Dairy.
The Dairies. In 1910 there were in Sweden 1 416 dairies, 550 of which
were co-operative dairies, 475 company dairies, 278 manor-farm-, and 113
manor-farm milk-purchase dairies. The co-operative system has gained its great-1
est number of adherents in the south and north of the country, while in
Central Sweden the dairy companies and manor-farm dairies are predominant.
In the southernmost läns — the two Skåne läns, and those of Halland,
Blekinge, and Southern Kalmar, there were, at the date given, no less than 205
co-operative dairies, the dairy companies’ establishments numbering only 47, and
the manor-farm-, and the manor-farm milk-purchase dairies together coming to
no more than 35. In the Norrland läns — those of Norrbotten, Västerbot-
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