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the swedish moor culture association.
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different läns. Some of them are exclusively experimental fields, others serve
as so-called model-fields for demonstrations to farmers.
The work of the Association can be divided into, firstly, practical scientific
work, aiming at increasing the knowledge of peat soil, its distribution and
various characteristics and qualities, and of the extent to which it can be
employed, together with the proper method of treating it for various purposes;
secondly, advisory work, by means of which the experience gained by the
association is communicated direct to the owners of the moors, and, thirdly, the work
of spreading information, in one way or another, respecting the experiments and
observations made.
Besides the director and working chief, the staff consists of: 2 botanists and
peat-geologists, 2 chemists, 1 assistant for greenhouse-experiments, 3
culture-engineers, each with his own district, 1 cashier, 1 typewriter, 1 inspector at
Flahult and 1 foreman at Torestorp.
Peat-bog (uncultivated) at Flaliult.
Field-surveys are carried out by the botanist each year in a different län,
in order to obtain a more exact knowledge of the character of the peat-lands.
Up to date (1914), 23 läns of the 24 in the kingdom have been thus submitted
to a preliminary investigation.
In the chemical laboratory, examinations are made — at a very low fee —
of the chemical quality of the peat, and the extent to which it can be used,
and in the botanical laboratory there are determined the plant-constituents of
the peat, partly by means of the microscope.
The consulting-work of the culture-engineers among the farmers is very
extensive. In 1913, some 504 farmers were visited on 275 days, and 628 peat-bogs
were examined, with a total area of 16 701 hectares. Consultative work has-
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