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tlie great and obvious advantages of tlie counter
arrangement lately adopted in a few places.
I walk up tlie valley of the Nid to the Leer Foss, some
three or four miles from the town. The terraces in this
valley are very remarkable, rising to a height of above
500 feet, and forming fertile flats on which are some large,
thriving farms ; their huge storehouses (called störhaus
here, from stör, large) have inclined planes from the
road, up which the cartloads of hay are wheeled to the
upper door near the roof, through which the hay is
pitched down to the floor below, and the whole barn
thus gradually filled. There is a lower door, nearly
level with the ground, from which I suppose the hay is
drawn as required in the winter time. Hay is of course
the most important produce of the Norwegian farmer,
as he subsists largely on the produce of his dairy, and
during the long winter time his cattle must be fed
entirely upon that which is gathered during the few
weeks of summer. They make no haystacks, but keep
all their hay thus loosely thrown into these wooden
barns. Their harvest time is too short, and the quantity
of hay too great, to permit of the careful stacking of
our farmers; which is unnecessary here, as they scarcely
ever sell any. These wooden barns may be built
timing the winter, when nothing can be done in the fields ;
the wood is at hand, and only costs the cutting, and this
is but a small matter 011 account of the superabundance
of water-power for saw-mills.
The Leerfossen are splendid falls. There are two of
them: the upper one ninety-nine feet, and the lower
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