470 



Agriculture Abroad. 



[Aug., 



for a State subsidy amounting to one-half the salary, office 

 and travelling expenses of the accountant, provided that the 

 Government standard of book-keeping is adopted and the 

 balance sheets are published. The number of State-subsidised 

 circuits for the financial year 1918-1919 was about 30 and in- 

 cluded 1,094 farms with a total of over 108,000 acres; in 1919 

 the figures were much higher. 



According to an account, based on press reports, received xiom 

 fi.M. Consul at Leipzig through the Foreign Office, the Union of 



. . , Co-operative Societies in Saxony, which 30 



Agricultural ^ • . ... •\- 



Co eration in ^^^^^ comprised 24 societies, now 



^ includes 588 societies, having a member- 



^* ship of over 50,000 (that is, almost 75 per 

 cent, of the independent farmers of Saxony) and a turnover of 

 over 2,000 million marks. The total capital of the associations 

 amounts to nearly 300 million marks. The Union includes no 

 fewer than 405 mutual loan societies having a turnover in 1919 

 of 628 million marks. In the same year the turnover of the 

 trading co-operative societies amounted to 354 million marks. 

 The quantity of milk delivered by the dairy co-operative societies 

 in 1914 was 55 million Htres (over 12 million gallons), but owing 

 to the War the amount has decreased by more than one-half. 



The pasture societies, which are peculiar to Saxony, are 

 considered to be of great importance at the piesent time in 

 the rearing of young cattle. Their total expanse of pasture land 

 is 653 hectares (about 1,614 acres) and 266 animals were r^-ared 

 in 1919. 



The supply of raw materials obtained bv th«^ Union m 1919 

 was nearl}^ three million cwt., which is only half its pre-war 

 level. There are approximately 420 storehouses, having a storage 

 capacity of 50,000 tons, at the disposal of the associations. An 

 extension of the financial business of the societies, in the form of 

 village banks, is foreshadowed. 



A Swedish Eoyal Proclamation, dated 18th March, 1921, pro- 

 hibits, under severe penalties, as from 21st March, 1921, the 

 » import into Sweden of the following : — 

 Importation 01^^ g^^^^ Timothy grass; Eed clover and 



'similar classes not particularly named; 

 Hybrid- and white-clover ; Cocksfoot ; Eye-grass ; Carrot, Swedish 

 turnip ; beetroot and rape ; kitchen garden produce ; and all seeds 



