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THE SOWING-SEED QUESTION.
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The Sowing-seed question.
Among agencies at work in the domain of Swedish agriculture, the initiatory
step taken in the decennium 1871/80 for a greater utilization of the grain and
seed harvests of Sweden deserves special attention. It is asserted according to a
frequently cited experience that the harvests of a cold climate sown in warmer countries
will yield a hardier, earlier, and more abundant crop than could otherwise be
obtained there. Consequently, it was considered possible that an exportation of
Swedish grain as seed to the European Continent might be turned into a source of
income of some importance. This question was also repeatedly agitated on the
platform and in pamphlets, at congresses and exhibitions, and samples were sent
abroad and cultivation experiments were made on quite a large scale. The
practical results expected did, however, not appear — a natural consequence of the
blind reliance on the supposed merits of the northern origin, which made the
senders of these samples forget to give due consideration to acceptable quality
and purity of sort. Nevertheless, this movement has produced important results,
firat by directing greater attention to the growing of plants, secondly by giving
an impulse to the improvement of Swedish plants, and thirdly by initiating the
introduction of a regular system of control.
The Office at Svalöf.
In connection with the aforesaid first movement, several seed-culture societies
were founded in the decennium 1871/80, but were soon either discontinued or
played but a local röle. But in 1886 »Svalöfs förening» (the Svalöf Society)
was founded by Birger Welinder and F. Gyllenkrook, first but as a private
enterprise, and with the intention of embracing only Southern Sweden. Already the
following year it was extended, however, and became a society in common for
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