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about four weeks. They were fed crushed oats, 

 bran, fine sweet clover hay, and willow twigs. 

 In winter they were always in good condition, 

 but in summer they suffered greatly from the heat, 

 and lost flesh. Cincinnati is just north of the 

 39th parallel. No other experiment in keeping 

 moose in strict captivity in this country has ever 

 been so successful. Usually the experiment ends 

 in the death of the captive from gastro-enteritis, 

 or inflammation of the stomach and intestines, 

 in the second or third year. A German writer 

 attributes the short life of moose in captivity 

 in part to lack of the amount of tannin in their 

 food to which they are accustomed. Moose 

 also probably need more exercise than they 

 usually get when in the ordinary game park of a 

 city.^' 



The propagation of moose and deer in private 

 preserves for commercial purposes is discussed in 

 a bulletin of the Biological Survey of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, issued December 31, 1910.'^ 

 Experiments in this field have been chiefly with 

 the wapiti and the Virginia deer, but the author of 

 the bulletin states (p. 18) that "perhaps no other 



" See pp. 307 et seqr 



^3 See also a paper by Frederic C. Walcott in Wild Life Conservation 

 in Theory and Practice (New Haven, 1914), pp. 195-222. 



