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mentioned breed of cattle. The coast cattle are smaller. The
live weight is from 450 to 550 lb. They are not very typical
either with reference to shape or colour but are peculiar in their
ability to subsist upon scanty pasturage.

Telemarken cow.

The Norwegian sheep are also, upon the whole, small and
slender. The live weight on an average hardly reaches 90 lb.
for adult animals. The rams have small and slightly spiral
horns, a short neck and fine wool. The colour may be black,
white or mottled. During the last few decades, the Norwegian
sheep has been very much crossed with foreign breeds, especially
Scotch Cheviots, black-faced, English Oxfordshire, and during
earlier times also with Spanish merino. Of these theCheviot [[** sic]]
gains an ever-increasing popularity in the real sheep districts.

Although the reindeer cannot strictly speaking be called a
domestic animal, it is kept in a domesticated condition by the Lapps.
The reindeer belongs to the cervine genus and has long branched
horns which are shed annually, but grow out again. It is a little

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