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VI. AGRICDLTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
set on foot discussions on questions relating to dairying, and partly to procure the
advantages for their members accruing from community of purchase and sale;
they also give information as to the prices being given, measures necessary for
the transport of dairy produce, etc. These associations began to spring op in
the seventies, but they did not meet with much support until the last decade.
All the dairy experts and the teachers of dairy-work have also combined, to
watch their own interests and to assist in the development of the dairying
industry. Their union, called the Swedish Dairy Experts’ Association, was founded
in 1888 and has been the prime mover in not a few important reforms.
Machines and Implements for Dairy-work.
Almost all the highly varied machines and implements employed in
modern dairy-work are manufactured in Sweden at different factories and
workshops, which in many cases exist solely for the purpose. This branch
of manufacture has become a very important phase of the industry of the
country latterly; it employs several thousand operatives, and through the
exportation of very considerable quantities of manufactured articles the
national wealth is annually increased by several millions of kronor.
Foremost among these manufacturing concerns stands the Aktiebolaget
Separator,1 one of the largest industrial undertakings in the country. In
their splendid workshops in Stockholm they turn out principally
Alpha-separators, but also pasteurizing and refrigerating apparatus,
milk-pumps, butyrometers, emulsors, etc. At present there are about 1,200
hands and 50 engineers and clerks being employed; upwards of 68,000
separators are sold annually, the market being the whole world; the
total output already considerably exceeds 400,000. The Company also
possesses branch-establishments in Denmark, Germany, Austria, Hungary,
and America. — Separators of different kinds are also made in other
factories: thus the Morgårdshammars mekaniska verkstad (mechanical
works), at Smedjebacken in Dalarne, turn out the Helice-Separators;
the Svenska Centrifugaktiebolaget,1 the Crown-Separators; B. A. Hjorth
& Co., the Vega; Aktiebolaget Rotator, the Orion and Globe;
Aktiebolaget Radiator, the Star; Aktiebolaget Sveaseparatorn, the Svea; and
Salenius’ verkstäder (works), the Phoenix.1 Radiators are made by the
Aktiebolaget Radiator
Vessels and implements of tinned steel-plate for use in dairies are
made by the Kockums järnverksaktiebolag (järnverk = iron works), the
Wedholms mejerikärlsfabrik (dairy-vessel factory), the Karlskrona
gal-vaniseringsaktiebolag, the Olofström and the Eskilstuna
stålpressnings-aktiebolag (steel-pressing Co.), and others; whey-cheese boilers and brass
and copper dairy-vessels, by the Skultuna bruk (works). — Certain of
the manufacturing-shops turn out different kinds of machines and
implements on a larger or smaller scale and also boilers and steam-engines
1 Aktiebolag = joint-stock company.
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