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farmers’ societies.
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popular lectures at various places in each län, the publications of the
Association being distributed on each occasion; all this at the expense of the society.
A number of lectures are also given at the meetings of the Association, at
the courses in agriculture given for small farmers, etc. In 1913, for example.
127 lectures were given in 12 various läns by the officials of the
Association. Since the year 1900, the Association has given a course of instruction
in moor-cultivation for small farmers and moor cultivators, with lectures,
demonstrations, and excursions. These courses have been very well attended, the
average attendance on each occasion being about 300 persons. Finally it may be
mentioned that the Association pays the expenses attendant on the lectures
given every year by the director and the botanist at the State Agricultural
High School, and that lectures on the work done by the Association have also
been given at meetings of societies and at congresses abroad — in Norway,
Denmark, Germany, Austria, England, and the United States.
The Association has devised and presented to higher and lower schools of
agriculture object-lesson material, for purposes of instruction. The Association
numbers at present some 2 100 members.
The Moor Culture Association enjoys a State grant in aid of its work, which,
in 1914, amounted to about 50 000 kronor, in addition to which the Agricultural
Societies and County Councils contributed about 11 000 kronor.
Farmers’ Societies.
During the last few decades the various farmers’ societies have powerfully
contributed to the promotion of the development of agriculture and the increased
interest exhibited by farmers in their common affairs. These farmers’ societies
endeavour, by means of lectures and discussions, to spread a knowledge of new
ideas or methods of work, and to bring about an exchange of thoughts and
opinions on these matters, and also, by means of economic associations, to
facilitate and support agricultural production, either by the securing of cheaper or
improved means of production, or by providing more favourable opportunities of
disposing of agricultural produce. In connection with the endeavours made
during the last few years to increase the number of small farmers in Sweden
and to promote their economic prosperity, there have arisen in various parts
of the country a number of "own homes" associations, some of which have assumed
the form of limited companies.
To the first-named group of farmers’ associations belong a large number of
agricultural clubs, farmers’- and small farmers’ societies, in various parts of the
country. Many of the sub-divisions of the above-mentioned Provincial Agricultural
Societies, the "hushållsgillen or hushållningskontrakt" as they are called, as well
as several associations for the promotion of gardening, fishery, and forestry,
work in a similar way, and the same can be said of the Swedish Farmers’
Association (Svenska lantmannaförbundet), the members of which are spread
over the whole of the country.
Of a more purely economic nature are the associations that have as their
aim the improvement of agricultural products; such are, the breeding-associations
for the various kinds of domestic animals, the coiu-testing associations, the
milk-testing-, seedculture-, moss-litter- and book-keeping associations, etc. Among these,
the breeding-associations especially — the stallion-, bull- and boar-pig
associations and the cow-testing associations — have spread enormously throughout the
country. Those last mentioned, the aim of which is to acquire an exact
knowledge of the fodder-consumption and the milk-returns of the individual cows,
amounted in 1914 to more than 750, and have made it possible to carry out
a systematized calculation of the milk-returns in cattle breeding.
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