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would take at least one-quarter part of water to reduce it 

 to the standard of cow's milk. This being an experimental 

 year, beyond now and again sending a supply round to our 

 nearest hospital and to neighbours, we made no attempt 

 at a systematic distribution of it. That will naturally be 

 a difficult matter until we can either divide our herd or get 

 sufficient quantities of milk to make it worth while to 

 distribute it widely. The milk was, however, readily made 

 by our Lapp herders into a very delectable and easily digest- 

 ible cream cheese, a commodity which we found it easy to 

 carry on our sledge trips during the winter. It did not 

 freeze, and formed an excellent addition to our diet. 



Our next effort will be to capture and rear with our do- 

 mesticated animals a number of the young of the woodland 

 caribou, which roam in great numbers near us, and also 

 to obtain some of the barren-land variety, if we possibly 

 can, for a similar purpose. In view of the immense area 

 of land that surrounds us, many thousand square miles of 

 moss-covered Newfoundland and Labrador which are well 

 able to support reindeer, we are still exceedingly optimistic 

 as to the outcome of this venture. For stock raising alone 

 it should certainly prove remunerative. The experience 

 in Alaska entirely justifies this conclusion, where now the 

 government has twenty thousand of these beasts in its 

 herds. 



A report direct from the herd, dated March, 1909, 

 states that the herd is in splendid condition: the stags 

 fat and sleek, the does all well, and no losses. Even those 

 returned in bad condition by schooner (from the lumber 

 camp mentioned) have picked up during a hard winter, 

 and appear to promise well for fawning in the spring. 



