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siderably where the barley is sown. When the sheep 

 have stood one night on a place, the fold is changed next 

 morning to the space immediately adjoining, and thus it 

 is continued over the whole barley-field for a whole fort- 

 night after it has been sown, until it is an inch or more 

 high. They have always a bundle of good hay, which 

 is strown out in the rack,* i hacken, for the sheep, when 

 they come there in the evening. The folds, fallorna, 

 consisted here as everywhere of such hurdles, grindar ; 

 which are made exactly the same shape as our common 

 aker-grindar in Sweden, although all the timber,verket, 

 in those which were used for folds, was much smaller, 

 klenare, so that they might be so much lighter to change 

 and carry from one place to another. The breadth or 

 length, as I will call it, of these hurdles was for the most 

 part 8 feetf, the height 3 feet 6 inches. They had as many 

 such hurdles in readiness, as their number of sheep was. 

 When they are set up into a fold, one hurdle is fastened to 

 another in this way that a stake, stor, is knocked down 

 with a mallet, klubba, between the side posts, sid-traden, 

 of two hurdles, to which pole, pale, one end of the 

 hurdle is bound fast, and the fold thus consists of a lot 

 of hurdles set in a four-sided figure, and a pole driven 

 down between each hurdle, to which they are bound 

 fast, so that they may stand firm. In these folds the 

 sheep stand at [T. I. p. 263] nights under the open sky, 

 and seem not to have it particularly warm on the wide 

 plain, when a strong north wind blows ; because the 

 fields here are very large and lie open to that wind. But 

 as the sheep are clipped here only once a year, and that 

 in the middle of the summer, they can well make shift, 

 barga sig. 



* I saw one of these, Sep. 21, 1886. [J. L.] 



f Some I measured, Ivinghoe, Sep. 21, 1886, were 7 feet 8 inches long. 



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