This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...impossible to describe the extraordinary effect both of sight and sound produced by this contrivance, when seen or heard at a distance. The bundle looks like some great bird of prey, shrieking as it rushes down at a tremendous pace through the air, till at last it comes down with a thud upon the ground below. The hay ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...impossible to describe the extraordinary effect both of sight and sound produced by this contrivance, when seen or heard at a distance. The bundle looks like some great bird of prey, shrieking as it rushes down at a tremendous pace through the air, till at last it comes down with a thud upon the ground below. The hay season begins about the middle of July, and continues in some parts of the country till the end of August. The same field is cut sometimes twice, or even three times. Even the early crops are usually very poor and thin. In the valley of Gudbrandsdal, parts of which are very dry, an ingenious system of irrigation has been devised. Water is carried from the streams, which intersect the valley, often for many miles in long wooden troughs, formed out of the trunks of young pines cut lengthwise and hollowed out in the middle. Similar troughs carry the water down on to the farms where it is wanted, and furnish also the supply required for various domestic uses. Of cereals, by far the most important is barley, from which the fladbrbd, " flat bread," the staple food of the country is chiefly made.3 Both threshing and grinding are done by water-power, a water-mill being an almost invariable accompaniment of a Norwegian farm. The farm buildings are usually placed so as to form the four, or more frequently only three, dis3 Vide p. 21S. connected sides of a quadrangle. This arrangement is also frequent in Sweden. Besides the storhus already mentioned, the buildings mainly consist of three, that in which the farmer and his family reside, in which also the large guest-chamber is usually to be found," that reserved for the kitchen and domestic servants; the third containing the dairy and store-room--a very necessary part, where the farms are fa...
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