Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-12
there will be an expenditure Of 600
crowns more than last year.
NORWAY.
Christiania.

Says a Norwegian correspondent:
although continued stormy weather
has been a great hindrance to tho
progress on the fisheries I'm most places
along the coast, the results up to date
are very satisfactory. and the catch
has been very good almost very day
when the weather has permitted the
fishermen to be out. To the 10th OF
this month, the total catch for the
whole country was 14,6000OO cod.
which is 100000 more than up to the
same date last year. Apparently.
therefore, this years result will be at
least about that Of an average year,
and If weather and catch during the
coming weeks continued favorable the
final result may be even better than
that. AT the beginning of March this
year the catch is as much as the ag-
gregate catch of the three previous
seasons. but then the last three sea-
sons have been the worst ever known
What has been great item this sea-
son Is the heavy loss of implements
sustained by the fishermen owing TO
the stormy weather. The prices are
ruling high, especially in the Trondh-
jem districts, where the notations have
been 80 to 4S kroner per 100 fish, in
Nordland the price has been % to 50
kroner. and somewhat lower than that
in Lofontein. The price of liver Is IL
to 10 kroner per Dbl in Lofoten, in
other places ID to IA kroner. The catch
in the Lofoten district alone up TO date
is about 4,I50.000 against 100000 TO
the corresponding date last year. While
this is a result for the district far bet
ter than that Of late years, it does not
by far come up to the catches made
some twenty years ago, when the
average catch at this time of the year
was some 100000 to 100000 OF cod.
The fishery fleet in Lofoten this year
year Is a large one. Some 5000 boats
are reported stationed there. The
total for the herring fisheries mp to
date amounts to about 100000 'maap
bbls.)"
During the last three or four years
Norway has imported a considerable
amount Of potatoes. This year, judg-
ing from various reports, the thing has
been reversed and Norwegian potatoes
are exported from the country every
week, mostly to Belgium and Holland.
The peculiar part of 1t seems to be
that potatoes were cheaper in Norway
In former years when they were i'm
ported from abroad, than this year.
when there Is more Of the vegetable
variety than the country really needs.
Benjamin Vogt. the newly appointed
Norwegian minister to Norway, does
not fall into favor with the Dagbladet.
He has always, according to that pa
per, been too easy" with Sweden and
II urges that the present charge daft
flares, Mr.. Bryn, would be far more
preferable
Major Adelskjold, of Stockholm, has
subscribed 500 crowns to the widows
and children of the sailors who lost
their lives during the recent storms
on the west coast. Similar subscrip-
lions have been literally offered In
Christiania and other Norwegian
cities.
To Tromsoe has come word to the
effect that Walter Wellman. the Amer
lean north polar explorer, will arrive
there June 10 and make his departure
polarwards June 10. IL the weather
conditions are favorable Mr.. Wellman
will then begin his hazardous journey.
The railway committee Of the storth-
ing purposes an expenditure OF 129,227
crowns for the completion Of the
Christiania- Drammen and the Dram
men Aandsfjord railways during the
coming summer and fall.
Olav Eide will succeed DIR Risjo as
editor-in-c chief of "Nordmor." The
former is an experienced newspaper
man and has been In the newspaper
business during the past twenty years.