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Gudbrandsdalen horse is somewhat larger, as a rule about 63 inches high,
and generally brown or black in colour. It has partly the same
faults of build as the foregoing one, although to a less extent;
it has, among other characteristics, splendid legs, and is quick
and strong as a working and carriage horse, but less suitable
as a saddle horse. It is used as a farm horse all over the
eastern part of the country and in the districts round the
Trondhjem Fjord. For the best stallions, up to 6,000 kroner
are paid. The average price for a good working horse is 700
to 800 kroner.

Fjord horse.

Of cattle, there are several different types or breeds in
Norway, but they may all be counted as mountain cattle of a milk
breed. Nowhere do we find the broad, rounded and muscular
forms of the lowland cattle with an inherited tendency to flesh
production. On the contrary, the animals are as a rule small
and slight, but good milk producers. They must often seek
their food over large stretches of ground on sparse pastures.
Several attempts have at different times been made to improve
the cattle stock of the country by an admixture of foreign
blood, especially Ayrshire, Dutch and Holstein-Frisian, but these

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