Middletown transcript., 1886-02-12
VALUABLE FARMS IN NORWAY.


How the Norwegians Work Their Rugged
Mountain Homesteads-Haying.
Some of the most valuable farms in
Norway would be spurned as gift by
American husbandmen, who are seldom
content with places of sudden undula-
ton, or, indeed, with anything but
pieces of rich prairie or bottom land. But
the Norwegians are industrious and
thrifty grangers, have comfortable barns
and fine cattle. and generations of FAM
lilies succeed each other in possessing
and working their mountain farmsteads.
Their houses are substantially con-
structed of wood, and inside there is an
air of comfort and cleanliness.
But what of the farm? Look about
you. Mountains hem us in on all sides;
there is no room for the fields as we
know them at home; but grass grows
luxuriantly among the rocks, with occa-
sionally patch as large as an ordinary
villa garden. There the farmer cuts a
portion of his hay crop, ON which his.
horses and cattle are mainly def
pendent during the eight winter
months. But his bayfield, is ".
wider spread. Glance upward sod
1,500 feet these, where an opening 6c-
ours in the dwarf birch, and you will eb-
serve the diminished form of man S-sy
at work. That is the farmer, th egh
mountaineer, cutting the grass VI
grows on yonder narrow ledge
He has been up since early M Id
will probably not descend till -g;
not tuft of grass will be left uns sed;
not foot Of level ground On TIL recep
and rugged mountain side but y be
visited, and its small crop carefS 81 re-
moved by the industrious bergsm&i.
If he has q wide stretch of field (hill
pasture or moorland in his boundary,
the farmer erects wooden sheds, in which
he stores his hay till winter, when, by an
ingenious continuance, he has the whole
rapidly and easily conveyed te Ae valley.
A familiar object in Ns.es espen glen is
the strong steel wirtoth 3 stretches
from the foot ne pit Of the
mountain. Downtx he bundles
Of hay are e 4 without
steadings. method
many weary d q necessary
ere the hay bong winter
could be brs 9appears the
Norwegian the idea Of
this hay tele ebrother hills
men of the l.ers' Journal.
aiz-
10 net All Street.
,ast the Sta Echange and about |
Me money center Of the city each day.
Solid old financiers, whose check would
be taken unquestioned for million,
come and 60. Dapper clerks, who look |
like millionaires on steen dollars q week; !
boys by the score fit hither |
and thither with hands full of bonds or
1t1er securities making deliveries accord
ing to contracts and sales arranged on |
he exchange floor. Bank agents, with |
mail fortunes often in the capacious |
oortmonnaies strapped to their waists, |
yoing to the clearing g-house to make good |
he daily balances, while every few mo-
nents comes the numbering wagon |
pushed along the sidewalk conveying the |
lash from Uncle Sans collecting counter |
1t the custom house to Uncle Sans
'trong vault below the sub-treasury. On
every side is wealth, yet attempts at
robbery are very rare, and successful
ventures at thievery scarcer still.
The fact is that every face passing
Along Wall street is scanned. 1t is
great place for seeming loafers and
oungers. Curbstone brokers have the
,emblance of loungers. Clerks enjoy a
cigarette on the sidewalk. So a lounger
more or less is not noted. But all who
loaf about with little to do
ire not loafers. They are sharp-eyed de-
ectives, to whom the face of every crook
n the country is known, and who are
constantly on the lookout for those faces.
New York World.