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VI. AGRICDLTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING OF SWEDEN.
Dairy-Schools.
A) SUte Dairy-Schools. The Dairy-Institute at Alnarp embraces two
divisions: the Higher Dairy-School and the common Dairy-School. There is
a maximum of 12 pupils every year, two being on the foundation, one in each
division. The course covers one year. The higher school has to train teachers
in dairy management. The conditions for entrance are: to have gone through
the two years’ course at an agricultural high school and to have had one year’s
practical experience in dairy-work. The fees are 600 kronor inclusive (a krona
= 1*10 shilling or 0’268 dollar). — The common dairy-school trains men to become
managers of large dairies. The conditions for entrance are: to be 19 years of
age at least, to possess good certificates from the common school, and to have had
at least one year’s practical experience of dairy-work in all its branches. The fees
are 400 kronor inclusive.
The Dairy-School at Åtvidaberg exists to afford men and women who have
already had experience in dairying and acquired some theoretical knowledge of
their business, an opportunity to study further the theory of dairy-economy, the
manufacture of butter and cheese, the management of dairy-machines and
apparatus, and to learn how to keep memoranda upon dairy-management- There are
two courses given every year, one from Nov. 1 to May 1, and the other from
May 1 to Nov. 1. At each course there is a maximum of 4 pupils; pupils can
attend a succession of courses if they so wish. Conditions of entrance:
candidates must have had practical experience in the management of a dairy and
possess sufficient general knowledge and theoretical understanding of dairy-economy
to ensure their being able to make profitable use of the instruction given. The
fees are 180 kronor inclusive. Additional pupils in cheese-making are admitted
for short periods at specially fixed rates.
The State Dairy-Stations give practical and theoretical instruction to
female pupils, their courses extending over 2 years. The pupils at these
institutions receive board, lodging, and teaching free of charge and 50 kronor a year
besides. The institutions are located at important dairies in different parts of
the country and are 26 in number, 18 of them for the first year’s course, which
is wholly practical, and 8 for the second year, in which both practical and
theoretical instruction are imparted. There are in all 66 pupils at these Stations.
At the State schools above mentioned, a total of 90 pupils can be received
every year, and during the years 1859/1902, no less than about 2,350 pupils
have been through them; 120 out of the number having gone on to the advanced
course. — The State grant to these schools is at present 27,000 kronor annually.
B) The Agricultural Societies’ Dairy-Schools. Several of the Agricultural
Societies support teaching institutions for female pupils, where these receive board,
lodging, and instruction free of charge, in some cases, too, a small salary. The
courses are either for one year or two; they are mainly of a practical character,
though theoretical study occupies the later portion, embracing from 2 to 15
weeks, according to circumstances. At these schools a total of 36 pupils are being
taught every year, and the cost for the societies amounts to about 15,000 kronor.
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