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dairy-maid with the herd and the product of the sæter returns to the
home farm.

The gross return of the live stock industry is generally
estimated at a value of about 140,000,000 kroner which, added to
the before-mentioned 70,000,000 kroner, being the yield of
agriculture, gives an aggregate gross income from Norwegian husbandry
of rather more than 200,000,000 kroner.

Ancient farm.

The erection of the buildings on Norwegian farms is
relatively expensive on account of the severity of the winter. All
kinds of domestic animals must have good warm houses, and we
cannot, like farmers of more southern countries, stack our hay
and grain, or keep our root-crops out in the field during the winter.
We must have houses for everything. In former days it was
very common to build a multitude of small houses, each fitted
for its own special use, clustering round the court-yard; while of
late it has become the rule to limit the number of houses on a
common farm to four. The main building is the dwelling-house,

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