6 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



HISTORY OF SEED CONTROL IN SCANDINAVIA AND FINLAND. 



Denmark. — As already stated, the first seed-control station in Den- 

 mark was established in < Jopenhagen in 1871. This was at first a pri- 

 \atc enterprise and was conducted for several years at a pecuniary 

 loss, being maintained through the public spiritedness of its founder, 



E. M.ill.M- Hoist. The Slate Agricultural Society in 1881 made an 

 annual appropriation of 1,000 and later of 2,000 crowns ($268 and $536, 

 respectively) for the support of the institution, and in 1883-84 the 

 Government appropriated 2,000 crowns, which was increased in 1886 

 t<» 5,000 crowns ($1,340) annually. The State did not, however, assume 

 full control of ill*' station until L891, when the present incumbent, O. 

 Rostrup, was appointed director. The government of the station is in 

 the hands of a seed-control commission of five members, appointed by 

 the State, which determines the policy and the working rules of the 

 station. 



The number of seed samples analyzed by the Danish seed-control 

 station since its establishment aggregates 30,897. The average num- 

 ber of samples analyzed annually has during late years approximated 

 1,800. The Copenhagen seed-control station is the only public institu- 

 tion of its kind in Denmark. 



Sweden. — The first Swedish seed-control station was established in 

 Halmstad in 1S70. Later other stations came into existence, as shown 

 in the following statement, furnished through the kindness of Dr. 

 Jonsson, director of the Lund seed-control station. 



Swedish seed-control stations, 1896. 



Counts {Ian). 



Halland 



Kulinar 



Skaraborg 



Wostmanland 



Stockholm 



Oestergotland 



Krisl iaustad 



Goteborg and Bohuslan. 



Oerebro 



Malmohua 



Westerbotten 



.1 < ' 1 1 1 1 1 : i m 1 



Upsala 



Jonkoping 



( lefleborg 



Vestemorrland 



Sodra Elt'sborg 



Norrbotten 



Gotlaad 



Varmland 



Location. 



Director. 



Halmstad E. 



Kaluiar A. 



Skara O. 



Westeras J. 



Stockholm 0. 



Linkoping C. 



Kristianstad | L. 



Goteborg \ J. 



Oerebro. ). 



Lund 11. 



I'mea (!. 



Ope r. 



Upsala i T. 



Jonkoping R. 



Gone A. 



Bernosand C. 



Boras A, 



LuleS P. 



Hemse T. 



Molkom J . 



Lyttkens 



Atterberg ... 



Nylander 



O. Bergatrand 

 Stjernquist . . 



A.Blum 



J. Wahlstedt . 



E.Alen 



Widen 



Jonsson 



X.Pahl 



F. Broman 



von Post 



Tolf 



West man 



G.Strokirk ... 



W.Essen 



Hellstrom 



A. Satervall. . 

 A. Andersson. 



Tear 

 of es- 

 tablish 

 ment. 



1876 

 1877 

 1877 

 1877 

 1878 

 1878 

 1879 

 1879 

 1880 

 1880 

 1880 

 1881 

 1882 

 1882 

 1883 

 1883 

 1885 

 1889 

 1889 

 1891 



Xumber 

 of analy- 

 ses made 

 in 1895. 



246 



603 



32 



150 



1,001 

 401 

 345 

 261 

 831 



1,255 



39 



137 



345 



365 



189 



434 



210 



58 



39 



215 



A number of the twenty seed-control stations in operation at the 

 present time are combined with "chemical stations" under the same 

 director. They are supported partly by State and county aid, partly 

 by the income from analysis fees. The State appropriation varies from 

 350 to 850 crowns ($93.80 to $227.80) annually to the various stations, 

 or 10,000 ($2,680) in the aggregate. In a few cases, e. g., Lund, the 



