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1-2-2 iii. rural husbandry.
Table 28. Imports and Exports of Cheese.
Year Imports, kg Exports, kg
Swiss cheese Dessert cheese Other kinds Total
1901....... 363909 1818
1905 ....... 320496 4 839
1906 ....... 939 976 18 461
1907 ....... 345 842 47 319 156 370 549531 9 064
1908 ....... 265 670 32 884 63 454 362 008 3 501
: 1909 ....... 270 137 38 780 43 937 352854 58 766
1910....... 240 536 35 642 47 128 323306 23 507
1911....... 255 463 39 678 42 074 337 215 2 956
1912....... i 61 920 1 518 291 580211 5 430
1 Swiss cheese included in »other kinds» since 1912 in the Official Statistics.
sociation, which was formed in 1905 and has its business-districts in Malmöhus
and Kristianstad Län. In order to make Swedish butter known, and to prevent its
being mistaken for the butter exported by other countries, a registered mark for
Swedish export-butter — the so-called rune-marl• (Sw. runmärket) — has been
employed since 1904. This mark, however, is not only a national one, but it
also shows the quality, as it may only be employed for butter from dairies the
butter-tests for which have shown that the cream or the milk employed there
for butter-manufacture has been pasteurized to at least 80° C., that the water
contained by the butter does not exceed 16 %, and that the quality of the
butter is irreproachable. The rune-mark becomes of greater importance every
year for the placing of Swedish butter on the English market. It is of growing
importance, too, for the sale of butter in the home-market, so that many dairies
which do not sell butter for export consider it necessary to endeavoiu- to obtain
the right to employ it. Since September, 1911, the highest amount of water
contained by the butter has been legally fixed by a Royal ordinance at 16 and
regulations have been issued respecting the control of this matter; the Board of
Agriculture has the task of seeing that the testing is carried out in a proper
way. The butter prices are still ruled mainly by the quotations of the
Copenhagen market. Since 1897, there has existed a so-called Swedish quotation, too,
which, however, is fixed a week later than the Danish and gives the average prices
obtained for first-class butter; it is thus, in reality, a market report. Cheese
is imported and exported, as already mentioned, only on a small scale. The
imported cheese consists for the most part of Swiss cheese, which is brought
into the country from Switzerland and Germany; some amount of dessert-cheese
is imported mainly from France, while other cheese is imported from various
quarters, large quantities having been imported during the last few years from
the Netherlands.
Measures for the Promotion of the Dairy-Industry.
The State and the various Agricultural Societies have endeavoured in many
ways to promote and support the dairy industry.
Teachers and dairy-experts. In the service of the State there is first a
State Dairy-Expert, whose duty it is to assist the Board of Agriculture in the
performance of its labours and to assist the public with information and advice,
and, secondly, an agent in England and another in Germany, who have to work
for the extension of the market for Swedish agricultural products in these two
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