Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 16: A Monthly Magazine; March, 1895 The potato is small but of an excel lent flavor. Barley is not always a sure cr0p as 'far north as Tromso, It was strange to hear some of the farmers talk of one week of fine weather. If they got that towards fall they were sure of a crop, it seemed. But it often happened that they did not get that, so their crop was cut for feed. It is often a task to get their crops properly dried. Everything must be hung on fences of poles or wire. But winter sometimes catches them and the grain is then hauled to the barn on sleighs. Vegetables are not in great demand, though many can be raised. It is too near the pole for the use of much else than heat mak ing foods. They who have time make flower beds. The seeds are soon drawn out by the powerful sun, and for a few weeks many flowers cheer the eye. But time for the cultivation of the aesthetical is mea gre. Considering this, it is wonder ful to see the amount of culture dis played in the home. Flowers are one of the necessities of a Norwegian woman's household. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.