Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the farm-yard under the open sky erected as it were a crib or rack, krubba eller häck, of two narrow hurdles, grindar, which were fastened together at the bottom, and between which fine hay was laid of which the sheep went to eat in the night when they stood at home in the farm- yard. The sheep are clipped here not more than once a year, and that in the summer. They are folded from Michaelmas in the autumn till this time [T. I. p. 202] in the spring, and later, on turnip-lands, a better description of which shall be given farther on. The hurdles, grindarna, wherewith, and within which, they are folded, are about 8 feet long, and 3 feet 6 inches high, which hurdles are ‘keyed ’ or looped, klafvas, close together in a row, a post being driven down into the ground between each ; and thus, accord- ing to the number of sheep, they made a larger or smaller fold, fälla. From the fold there commonly runs a narrow passage made of similar hurdles, to soine one of the living hedges, by which the field is sur- rounded, that the sheep in bad weather may be able to go to such hedge and shelter there. In the sheep-fold there is mostly a “ sheep-crib ” or “ sheep-trough,” ho, knocked together of two boards ad angultun acutum, or a little less than an angulus rectus, and a board-lap at each end, so that the fodder may not run out. When it is bad weather barley is laid in this trough, or oats, or pease, for the sheep to eat. Halm-tak. Straw-thatch was much used in this district, on outhouses as well as on cottages, stugor hvari folket bodde. It was also hereabout not un- common to see beautiful brick houses, stenhus, with straw-thatch over. A great many outhouses were, how- ever of wood, the walls, for instance, being made of thick oak-boards. The roofs of the houses, whether they were
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