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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. 
