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BT7EEETIX 1423. r. S. PEPAETMEXI OY AGEICTTLTfEE 
Tab:;: 2 — A " sis of food value ifliclu s, oilier forage plants, and cultivated 
grains and grasses 1 
tein Starch Cellulose 
I .-. .'.-.-;-.;.- Percent Per cert 
:ria islandiea 14.50 
Cetraria nivalis 15.00 
icnia rarcireTins 
-" - v;. .; -::iil{ ' 15.00 
? .."-. -':'.: \ - ~-yM~: 1: 
Pannelia saxatOis 1 
Average 
Browse: 
- - i '.. .■--*:." 
:tnu 
glauca 
SaliT herbacea 
Average 
=es: 
i . :-l] :::. 
A.-;. ::- :--. - ~ :•_-;.:■_;, 
Average 
~- ■..:.-. 
Cora 
Barlev 
Oats 
." rage 
Meal: 
Cottonseed meal 
Lizsvri ::. :.'. 
Oatmeal _ 
Average 
Timothv 
Alfalfa 
t cent 
J 
t cent 
1.15 
2.10 
1.40 
3.55 
.90 
2.15 
1.85 
L75 
- ■ 
10.70 
14.75 
Per cent Per cent Per cent 
% 
4.55 
1.60 
7a oo i 
2 45 
2.05 
49.40 
30.50 
6.35 
56.60 
6.10 
51.25 
17.85 
5.30 
47.15 
7.10 
14 92 
- ~'- 
4.42 
4.03 
59L22 
15.00 
"-' 
1: ■ 
15. CO 
4.40 j 
3.00 
2.65 
4 ;•: 
14. SO 
14. 
12 85 
14. 85 
5L10 j 
47.30 
::. " 
17.75 
:-- '-: 
16.25 
:.:. v. 
4.34 
3. 11 
L4 :: 
48 .28 
1: 
3.90 
4. 70 I 
2.30 
2-£f 
11.60 , 
1015 1 
41. So 
44. CO 
25.35 
23.35 
:-: 
- 
lass 
42 12 
11.30 
ia9o 
1L00 
L40 
2.40 1 
3.00 | 
5.00 
1.S0 
5.00 
i r . 
12.40 
1LS0 
7a io 
59.70 1 
L70 
2 70 
9.50 
::. :~ 
2.:: 
3. S3 
1L57 
4. 63 
■ ■: 
7.90 
7.20 
5.70 i 
_ 
13.10 
7.90 
7. 10 
14. :>: 
23.60 
" -: 
67.40 
5.60 
8.43 
s ;- 
j. -_- 
29. r" 
42. 13 
5.13 
13. 2G 
4.40 
2.50 
2 20 
5.90 
14,30 
45.00 
29.00 
25 
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- he analysis :' li .. re . gr asses, and browse for this table was obtained from a translation of the Nor- 
wegian " Report of Grazing Committee on the TTse of the Barang Section — Lands Department " (Indstilling 
fra Fieldbeitetomiteen om Bardangerviddens utnyttelse — i^andbruksdepartementet). Kristiania 
(Oslo), 1911. The comparable figures for grains, meal, and hav were obtained from ••Profitable Stock 
Feeding," by H. B. Smith, 1913. 
of forage in Alaska and to the presence of large natural grazing 
areas capable of being divided into individual grazing allotments, 
each complete in itself. The nomadic habit of the Lapp requires 
that he handle his reindeer under a close-herding practice: but in 
Alaska, to obtain the best results tinder a fixed-allotment system, 
open herding must be practiced. 
SIZE OF HERDS 
The reindeer are now run in herds of from less than 400 up to 
3, head, and in one case 12,000, with the average about 2,500. 
Because of the large natural grazing units, the impracticability of 
dividing the range among numerous small herds, and the fact that 
reindeer on the range are not so amenable to control as are sheep but 
must be handled more like cattle, the future tendency will be toward 
the larger herds. The number of animals to which each herd may 
s is limited by the carrying capacity of the individual allot- 
ment. The size of an allotment is governed, of course, bv its natural 
