MAKING THE FLAT BREAD OF 



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 THE NORWEGIAN PEASANT 



This Norwegian woman, now past her threescore years, is baking the well-known flat 

 bread under a little shelter of dried branches. The dough for this bread is in the shallow 

 dish in front and to the left of the old lady and is made of coarse barley meal and water. 

 After being rolled thin, it is removed to the round, flat baking-stone in the foreground, under 

 which a fire of faggots is kept burning. It is then stored in a dry place for the winter, when 

 it forms one of the chief foods of the peasants. 



down farms, Pasteur signalized that same 

 generation with the lesson of how to save 

 our domestic animals from the ravages 

 of infectious diseases, and through that 

 magnificent discovery gave man a weapon 

 against human as well as animal infec- 

 tions. 



In the middle period of the nineteenth 

 century an epidemic of anthrax fever 

 broke out in Europe and ravaged the cat- 

 tle regions of the Old "World. Not only 



was it one of the most dreaded of dis- 

 eases because of its great fatality rate, 

 but it is also a most loathsome disease, 

 producing sores and abscesses in its vic- 

 tims, and it attacks animals and men 

 alike. 



By the middle of the century sheep and 

 cattle raising in some parts of Europe 

 was practically abandoned ; in many 

 places the dairying industry was wiped 

 out, and it seemed that nothing could 



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