CHAPTER XVI 

 RAISING DEER FOR PROFIT 



A CHAPTER remains to be written on the wild 

 hoofed animals of North America in their re- 

 lation to the farmer and stock-breeder. This 

 group includes the various deer, the almost 

 extinct bison (buffalo), the antelope, the wild 

 sheep (bighorn), the white goat, the peccary 

 and the herds of escaped horses. Of these the 

 most important, from our point of view, are the 

 deer, the rearing of which, for profit, may be- 

 come an industry in which the first-comers will 

 reap a great harvest. 



Native American deer. Many forms of 

 deer are native to the United States and Can- 

 ada. The moose (substantially identical with 

 the European elk) ; the caribou in several forms 

 identical with or very similar to the European 

 reindeer; the wapiti, which we erroneously call 

 "elk," and which is the American form of the 

 red deer of Europe and its Asiatic analogues 



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