Abstract
This paper explores a little‐known aspect of Norway's ‘closed‐fist’ policy and union history that played a role in the fate of the Union Trade Act during the dissolution of Norway's union with Sweden, namely the controversy over livestock trade. By way of this controversy and the establishment of Norwegian veterinary services the paper points to the way in which statistics and veterinary medicine may act as a form of political technology. In this case it took part in producing a national territory. Hence, science took part in carving a way out of the union. Theoretically, what the paper argues is the importance of studying economic and political history in combination with the history of science.
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