Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-06
INDUSTRIES OF SWEDEN AND
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
Although in Norway and Sweden
there are many mines and mills, most
of the people gain their living either
out of the soil or the sea. The farm
er in either country is marvel of in
dustry and thrift; he would live upon
what an American farmer wastes,
and live more comfortably than our
farming population do, as rule.
The amount of labor done at the spe-
cial dairy farms, to which cattle are
driven in summer, generally by girls,
would horrify Western maiden, but
the Swedish and Norwegian girls
thrive on it, enjoying rare good health
and consequent happiness. Still
more exacting, is the home care of
cattle in the winter, when much of
the food must be specially prepared.
On some soil that here would be con-
demned as good for nothing, fair
crops are grown and harvested in the
short summer, while in the southern
provinces the yield is equal to that of
model farms in America.
The maratime statistics of the two
countries, and of Norway in particu-
lar, are simply staggering. Last
year more than a thousand Norwe-
gian vessels entered the port of New
York, and seven times as many were
busy elsewhere. More than sixty
thousand sailors man these vessels,
and yet Norwegian sailors are nu-
merous in the merchant navy of al
most every other country. About a
hundred and twenty thousand Nor
wegians are engaged in the fisheries.
The author minutely describes the
great fishing stations of Norway, and
here, as elsewhere, is struck by the
attention paid by the government to
all its resources. Every fishing sta
ton has superintendent, appointed
by the government, and the date of
beginning the seasons work, the
time of starting out for the day, and
even the places in which the fish are
prepared for market, are determined
by him; but the officers duties seem
to consist principally in preventing
confusion or bad feeling. No liquor
is sold at the fishing stations, and yet
the men, who are directly in the path
of all the american weather" that
crosses the Atlantic, are a remarka-
bly, vigorous and healthy set of fel-
lows; they wear good clothes, too,
which is not done by fishermen in
general. To their abstemiousness
must be attributed the lack of strife:
during a long visit to the fishing sta
tions the author saw no fighting, and
did noghe single oath. No fish
ing is permitted I'D Sunday. Drunk
enness and profanity are rare every
where in Scandinavia there seems
to be absolutely no idle, non-produc-
ing, dangerous class, such as is the
mainstay of vice in every other Euro
pean country. At fairs and feasts
there is a great deal of drinking, but
the period is brief, and the fun never
eliminates in ghting.-John Hab-
berton, IN Harper's Magazine.
The Boston Journal Of Chemistry
thus accounts for the disposition of
the millions of pounds of glucose
manufactured in the western states
every month. 1t is used mostly as
an adulterant in the manufacture of
table syrups and in adulterating the
dark, moist sugars used largely by
the poor. Its next largest use is in
the manufacture of candies. All
soft candies, wakes, taffies, caramels,
chocolates, etc., are made Of glucose.
Children are, therefore, large consum-
ers of this substance; the hOney-bees
also are fond of it, and will carry il
away by the ton if it is placed within
their reach. The honey made from
it is no better than the pure glucose.
as it is slowed away in the cell with.
out change. Human ingenuity, it is
stated, has reached the point of max.
ing honey and storing it in the comt
without the intervention of the bee.
By appropriate machinery a nice.
looking comb is made out of paraffint
and after the cells are filled with glu
cose syrup, this fictitious ''honey" i:
warranted true white-clover honey
from Vermont.