REINDEER IN ALASKA. 



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to be driven. Two hooks are employed, for the reason that the 

 milling animals tend to reverse the direction of their movements 

 when they approach a pocket from which they have succeeded in 

 escaping on previous occasions, and then, not recognizing the danger 

 of entering the other, they are driven into it and operations are 

 thus facilitated. 







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Fig. 2. — Diagram of improved type of corral for handling reindeer, chiefly for counting 

 and branding; constructed entirely of split poles. The reindeer are driven into the 

 main corral between long side v/ings, and sections of the herd are detached as needed 

 by means of the separating pens, gates, and chute. A further improvement would con- 

 sist of a small corral at the end of the chute, where all animals are handled, to trap 



' any that might evade the herders stationed at the swing gate. 



