Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-10-11
.FARMING TAUGHT IN
SWEDEN SCHOOLS
An Interview With Karl Jansen
Which viii Be Interesting
to Farmers and Educators

Mr. Karl Jansen, who is here in the
interest of the public schools, was in
terviewed by one of our reporters last
Saturday and, among other things,
he spoke very entertainingly about
farming in his native country-Sweden.
To quote Mr.. Jansen: THE valley of
lake Malar, in central Sweden, is the
best farming portion of our country. 1t
is made up of farms from forty to one
thousand acres. Let us take farm
of one hundred and twenty acres as
example,: 1t would have fifty acres of
cultivated land and twenty acres of tim
Der for household need. On that farm
is paid every year a tax to the govt
eminent and local authorities the sum
of one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Just think of that-and still the farmers
make a good living.
Many hourishing agricultural schools
are placed everywhere in easy access to
the farmers. Those schools are really
farm schools and they make real bona
fide farmers and not merely theorists. In
public schools preliminary farming, graft
ing of fruit trees care of flowers, pres
ervation of the forest and tree planting
are taught.
The main crops on the farms are
wheat, rye, barley, oats, potatoes and
other root crops besides fruits and ber-
ries and everything that is good to eat"
IL seems, to be the ambition of every far
mer to have as many COWS as he can
possibly feed and on a one hundred and
twenty-five acre farm he has at least ten
of them. Sheep, swine and the feathered
friends like chickens turkeys, ducks and
geese are there in many numbers Flow
ers grow round his home and his
vegetable garden is a cure for hungry
eyes.
"Gooseberries, raspberries, etc, grow
in abundance on his farm and the fruit
trees are the same as here in America
He surely has plenty TO eat. Within five
miles of his farm are milk depots all
over the country where he sends his
milk morning and night and at the end
of the month receives his prompt pay.
That milk goes to the great manufac-
turing dairies where butter and cheese
are made, to eventually be found in
many of Americas stores"
Then we ask thelquestion: Why can
not the southern farmer make arrange
ments to buy his own cheese and home
made products from his own native
state?
"The barns are big, light, clean and
roomy with windows like those of mans
dwelling Windowpanes are as carefully
put in as in the farmers own home. The
COWS are kept in from October till April
and let out daily for exercise and fresh
air. They are tied inside in their stalls
like the horses and given as much care.
The barn is cleaned every day and the
cows are curried at least once a week
They are bedded with straw every night
which. mixed with manure in combina-
ton from the horse stable, make the
farmers gold mine" and when the
spring comes with melting SHOWS and
balmy breezes he has something to put
on his land that money cannot buy.
1T seems to me that stock raising in
the south could surely be brought up to
a good standard and in some way be
profitable to the farmers of the state
of Georgia and good beef on the hoof
is always sure of already sale, besides
the fertilizing quality of cattle manure
is par excellence" i
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