492 



Swedish Dairy Industry. 



Industrial plants were grown on 41,221 acres, the principal 

 crop being hemp, which occupied 2>Z^ l 7^ acres. 



The inquiry also embraced a census of the number of 

 draught animals, and of the number of ploughs. The total 

 number of draught animals in 1893 was 479,125, com- 

 prising 366,741 oxen, buffaloes and cows, and 112,384 

 horses. 



Dairy Industry of Sweden. 



In a recent Foreign Office Report,* Mr. Arthur Herbert, 

 First Secretary to H.M. Legation at Stockholm, has col- 

 lected some useful information on the dairy industry of 

 Sweden, and on the conditions which enable Swedish butter 

 to compete in the English market with that produced at 

 home or in other countries. 



The importance of this industry in Sweden may be 

 realised by the fact that the item of dairy produce figures as 

 second in value on the list of exports from that country. 

 With a population of 5,000,000, Sweden owns some 2,600,000 

 cattle, and it is estimated that the annual value of the milk 

 produced is a little under ;£ 10,000,000 sterling, assuming that 

 there are 1,500,000 milch cows yielding an average of 350 

 gallons per annum, and reckoning the milk as worth ^\d. 

 per gallon. 



Apart from the small dairies making butter and cheese for 

 home or local wants, there are some 1,800 large dairies, of 

 which 1,420 are devoted to butter-making only, and 210 to 

 cheese-making, the other 170 manufacturing both butter and 

 cheese. Of these large dairies some 625 are "estate dairies/' 

 which deal only with their own milk ; 320 are "estate dairy 

 factories,'' which purchase milk from outside to supplement 

 their own production ; 515 are factories purchasing all the 



* " Report on the Dairy Industry of Sweden." — Miscellaneous Series No. 439 

 [C. 8649—10]. 



