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VI. AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
In most places the dairies are very well constructed, with floors of asphalt,
cement, limestone, or slating, and are equipped with very good and practical
machinery and appurtenances. The motive power is steam, as a rule, though
in some places water is employed. The capital sum invested in dairy enterprise
is estimated at 15 million kronor. Dairy work has been largely done by women;
now, however, in the larger concerns, more especially in co-operative dairies,
there are male managers and for the greatest part male hands.
Interior of a co-operative dairy.
In 1900 there were 1,688 dairies in Sweden. The milk and
cream they manipulated amounted to about 842-3 million kilograms of
fresh milk, or nearly one third of the total supply of milk from the
whole country. Of the above quantity 72-7 million kilograms were sold;
the remainder, 769-6 million kilograms, being turned into butter and
cheese; to the former product may be allotted 725 million kilograms,
and to the latter 45 million kilograms, reckoning 11 kilograms of
unskimmed milk to one kilogram of fat cheese, and 6 kilograms to one
kilogram of half-fat. Out of that milk about 26-n million kilograms
of butter were produced (making 27-8 kilograms of milk to 1 kilogram
of butter), and 3-2? million kilograms of fat cheese, about 1-46 million]
kilograms of half-fat cheese, and 2" 5 2 million kilograms of skim- milk)
cheese, these products having a total value of about 55 million kronorj
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