250 Report on the Agriculture of Sweden and Norway. 
Ageiculttiral Institutions. 
In Sweden there are twenty-six county agricultural societies, 
partly supported by members' subscriptions, and partly by a 
Government grant of one-fifth of the amount of the spirit-duties 
annually paid within the district over which the Society has juris- 
diction ; and twenty-seven agricultural schools, educating 367 
pupils in practical farming, at the cost of the State. The details 
of the work done by the societies (which includes the collection 
of agricultural statistics), and of the instruction given to the 
pupils at the farming schools, would lengthen too much this 
already long Report. I must therefore be content to give an 
idea of the higher Agricultural Institutions. 
First of all, is the Royal Agricultural Academy of Sweden. 
This institution was founded in 1811, and not only discharges 
the functions of a scientific society, but also undertakes the 
management of an experimental farm, a chemical experimental 
establishment, and a museum of models of agricultural imple- 
ments and machinery. It has the supervision of the agricultural 
schools and societies just noticed, and of the model dairies,* 
which are established in different parts of the country, as well 
as of the State herds that have been mentioned in a previous 
portion of this Report (p. 209). 
The experimental farm is situated close to Stockholm, and is 
under the management of Mr. Juhlin Dannfelt. It consists of 
about fifty acres, farmed on an eight-course shift, viz., (1) bare 
fallow or green vetches ; (2) winter corn ; (3), (4), and (5) seeds ; 
(6) mixture of oats and barley ; (7) roots or green vetches ; (8) 
barley. There are also about six acres of permanent grass, and 
about seventeen being laid down, over twenty acres of garden, 
and about 190 acres occupied by woods, rocks, hill-pastures, 
roads, buildings, <Scc. There are all necessary farm-buildings, a 
chemical laboratory, gas-works, houses for the manager and his 
subordinates, and every means and appliance necessary for the 
purposes of an establishment where every crop that is^rown and 
every animal that is bred or fed are of an experimental nature. The 
results obtained are published from time to time in the 'Journal 
of the Royal Agricultural Academv,' the proper title of which is 
' Kongl. Landtbruks-Akademiens Tidskrift.' 
Travelling Instructors, in the employment of the Academy, 
give instruction, as required, in matters connected with cattle- 
breeding and dairy husbandry, as well as in those relating to wool- 
growing and sheep-keeping. The Academy also has a staff of 
Agricultural Engineers, who are accompanied on their visits by 
* There are 13 model dairies, and 2 dairy schools supported by the Govemmeiit. 
