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POULTRY-BREEDING AND APICULTDRE. 569
Table 78. Imports and exports of certain minor agricultural products.
Arerage for i the years Living plants.* Value In kronor. Eggs. In scores. Honey. Kilograms. Wax. Kilograms.
Imports Exports. Importa. | Exports. Imports. Exports. Imports. Exports.
1871*0..................108,381 5,517 46,707 ! 148,320 1,233 ’ 263 4,711 12,688
1881.90 ..................352,612 13,904 119,915 337,697 6,882 784 13,814 11,935
1891/95 ................620,214 33,951 283,246 I 820,846 12,284 821 6,916 11,0101
1896/00........ 786,503 32,003 1,654,137 I 392,690 17,613 664 13,178 5,573
In 1898 ....... 777,100 26,292 1,367,595 360,797 19,2531 - 15.257 4,194
. 1899 ........ 817,712 34,591 2,194,317 i 210,310 26,142 ! 243 14,765 6,288
> 1900 ........ 957,456 53,286 3,188,510 | 145,053 14,8471 - 15,9801 5,8221
The total number of cocks and hens in our land is calculated as being at
present about 3 millions. In general, poultry-breeding is not especially flourishing
in Sweden. There exists, however, paying goose-breeding in Skåne and Öland, and
in autumn a considerable number of geese are sent from the provinces mentioned
to other parts of the country and to Denmark.
A number of different breeds of fowls have been brought into Sweden, amongst
which Leghorns and Plymouth-Rocks have won the greatest reputation. The
interest in poultry-breeding seems to be on the increase, and the »Society for
poultry-breeding» tries in many ways to distribute good breeders and to spread a
knowledge of the necessary arrangements for a paying system of breeding. In 1898, a
new society was established, »The Society of poultry-breeders in Sweden», with a great
nun ber of members from different parts of the country. If it obtains the support
desired, it ought to be able to work successfully for the establishment of
poultry-breeding as a lucrative occupation, many districts in Sweden being especially
suitable for it. A prominent specialist has calculated that Sweden should be
easily able to produce eggs to the value of several tens of million kronor. The
present production is estimated at 12 million score per year.
Eggs are exported chiefly from the eastern and south-eastern provinces to
England, direct or via Denmark and Norway. Figures for earlier and later years
we given in Table 78. The import of eggs has, of låte years, much exceeded
the export; the eggs come chiefly from Russia, Finland, and Denmark.
Apiculture. The inhabitants of Sweden have used honey from time
imme-æorial as a luxury, and regulations are found in the old provincial laws
concerning the ownership of forest-bees. When, afterwards, wax-candles were used for the
high-altar and before the images of saints, and as honey was a necessary
ingredient of many dishes and for the preparation of mead, apiculture developed to a
paying industry. Mead was, in olden times, »the favourite drink of gods and of
men>. But when sugar came more and more into use, apiculture declined very
moch. And although several measures have been taken in the last century to
waken interest in apiculture, and many agricultural societies contribute money
for the promotion of the industry, the bee-hive becomes rarer and rarer in the
gardens both of large farms and of cottages. There are, however, in the country
•pecialists who pursue apiculture on a large scale and with profit. Bee-swarms
»od queens have, too, been largely imported from abroad in order to form more
fertile swarms. — The total number of bee-swarms in Sweden is at present
calculated at about 100,000, and the yearly production of honey at J/a million kilog.,
and of wax at 10,000 kilog. A view of the exports and imports of honey and wax
i» given in Table 78.
* Including flowers and bulbs. A krona = 110 shilling or 0 268 dollar.
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