220 MepoTt on the Agriculture of Sweden and Norway. 
One of our firm, lately in Aarliuus, at the Jutland Fat Cattle 
Show, met a Swedish Professor who advocated the advantage 
of Shorthorns being imported into Sweden. The ordinary run of 
Swedish bullocks make from 14Z. to 18/. or 19/. each, though 
some old work-oxen occasionally reach 30/., and even more, when 
stall-fed in their own country ; while crossed-Shorthorns from 
the same country make, as three-year-olds, 22/. to 32/. each- 
From Sweden therefore, by judicious Shorthorn-crossing, a large- 
supply of first-class fat cattle, as well as useful and saleable- 
stores, might readily be available. 
" At present we have large lots of calving-cows, which are- 
readily Ijought by Edinburgh dairymen, — foreign cows consti- 
tuting the whole stock in some dairies in the city. These make 
prices varying from 7/. to 15/. each, as a rule milk well, and 
from their small cost are less risk to the dairyman ; while whea 
fat they frequently make 3/. to 5/. a-piece over inlaid price,. 
Ayrshires or Shorthorns generally losing nearly as much com- 
paratively between purchase by the dairyman and sale to the- 
butcher. The cross in this class of stock, therefore, would 
likewise be beneficial, many of our best dairymen refusing 
them at present from the same cause as the farmers do the store 
cattle of the native breed." 
Sheep. 
Although every farmer keeps a few sheep, sheep farming, as 
we understand it, scarcely exists in Sweden and Norway. The 
few sheep or goats seen on even the smallest farm are kept 
more for domestic use than as a source of profit, more for the 
wool than the meat, and in some districts, as in Dalarne, 
chiefly as the source of supply of the sheepskin jacket, which is 
part of the national costume of both men and women. 
The province of Scane, in the South of Sweden, is the only 
district in which large flocks of sheep are frequently met witl 
on arable land ; but even there almost every farmer whom I 
questioned on the subject told me that formerly he kept mon 
sheep, that they did not pay, and that he had reduced his flock 
The fact is, sheep are an expensive stock to feed, and a troublesomtj 
stock to look after during the long winter, and therefore goo( 
slieep-farming is most frequently to be seen in that part of tlu 
country where the winters are neither so long nor so severe as ii 
the more northern districts. In Sweden, as in Canada, shecj 
cannot find a large, or even any, portion of their winter food fo 
themselves on the pastures, as they do in England, and .on tha 
account nmst be less profitable than in this country. 
The sheep-management at Siibyholm, near Landskrona, ma 
be described as an example of the better class : 50 Cotswoli 
