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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