REINDEER AND MUSK-OX 



Committee on Appropriations at Washington in December last, stated that the 

 reindeer herds in Alaska had undergone serious depreciation from various 

 causes, the Bureau of Education, under whose control these herds had been until 

 last year, having made no investigation of the diseases and parasites of the 

 animals, nor any study of the grazing problems connected with the industry. 



It had been 

 found that rein- i 



deer grazing in 

 the same area for 

 ten years had be- 

 come very seri- 

 ously infested 

 with parasites of 

 five or six differ- 

 ent kinds, where- 

 as, reindeer 

 herds grazing by 

 themselves over 

 a distant and 

 freer range, were 

 practically free 

 from such para- 

 sites. 



Reindeer- 



-Just Arrived. 



Courtesy of Carl Lomen, Nome, Alaska. 



Grazing Unit — 



The United States authorities are now studying the range and endeavouring 

 to determine a grazing unit, that is to ascertain how much land, under the forage 

 conditions of that countrv, one reindeer needs to maintain it for a vear. 



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Vegetation, Herschel Island. 



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