REINDEER AND MUSK-OX 



The report of 1904 gives the following statistical table showing the increase 

 from the time of the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska up to 1904: — 



The following table shows the increase of fawns from 1893 to 1904 



Total fawns surviving, 10,267. 



Average increase of herds by fawns, 1893-1904, 45 per cent. 



Ai 1^" ^2?J' ^"^^^ ^^^ regulations were codified for the reindeer service in 

 Alaska 1 hey provided for the supervision of herds and stations to be included 

 m the duties of the District Superintendent of Schools under the United States 

 tJureau ot Education. An apprentice on entering the reindeer service, if his 

 work is approved by the local superintendent, receives at the end of the first 

 year of his apprenticeship six reindeer (four females and two males); at the 

 end ot his second year, eight reindeer (five females and three males); at the end 

 ot Ills third year, ten reindeer (six females and four males) ; at the end of four 



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