Show REINDEER ROASTS MAY BE COMMON COMMONAS AS PORK CHOPS Propagation of Animal on Large Scale to Be Undertaken By Lee J. J Newspaper Enterprise Staff Cor Cor- respondent SEATTLE Wash Nash July 19 And dont don't forget to bring home homo a good reindeer rout roast for tor Sunday Sunda dinner This will be bo a R. familiar domestic domes domis- tic order before belore long Tho The governments s of ot the United States StateR and Canada are promoting on an extensive scale tho the gation in sub-Arctic sub America of or reindeer herds which in a few tew years ears are expected to rank with sheep and cattle as a a. source of j meat supply Dr Edward W W. Nelson chief of ot tho the department of ot agriculture as Is Ison ison I on his way to Alaska with a astaff astaff staff of ot naturalists to make mako a I survey of ot tho the reindeer herds numbering about animals with a view to placing reindeer raising on a commercial basis Thus far tar the reindeer has b been ln chiefly useful in saving tho the Eskimo Eskimo Es Es- kimo from extinction Pastoral Eskimo Tho The government is undertakInG ing to transform a a. hunting people peo peo- pl into a a. pastoral people is the way ay William T. T Lopp superintendent of ot the Alaska school service service ser ser- vice puts It Twenty eight ht years a ago o 1200 reindeer were ser ser-I introduced In tn- tn from Siberia Herds arc are maintained in connection with I most of or the sixty-five sixty native schools The young Eskimos are given a tour tour- year four apprenticeship I In the care caro of or the herds And are arl given deer of ot their own so that I the they can become Independent nt From this purely altruistic movement the reindeer industry I Ihas has grown until It promises to spread over oer thousands of ot square re miles of t territory hitherto a tl wil wil- jJ I The Tho Hudson Bay company company com com- comI I pany backed by the dominion government has obtained tho the use of ot the southern half halt of ot Baffin Land and has engaged Stevans- Stevans son tho the explorer to promote reindeer raising 2 a Year I One of or the purposes of ot the tho biological bIological bio bIo- logical surveys survey's e s 's activities in Alaska Alaska Alas Alas- ka will be bo to improve the tho type of reindeer b by crossing with the wild caribou A reindeer yields Ields about pounds of or meat Dr Nelson believes this weight can bo be almost doubled by Judicious breeding Reindeer feed teed on wild herbage during the summer Bummer and their winter mainstay is the reindeer moss covering co the tho tundra The present cost of ot maintaining a a reindeer er according to the tho figures I of ot the tho Alaska school service is about 2 a 3 year ear It Is expected to ct this cost in half halt Moro More than half halt the tho reindeer in Alaska are now owned by Eskimos Es Es- kimos Herds Increase 20 per percent percent cent or more moro a year ear after the animals are killed for meat and those lost by straying or natural enemies are arc counted out Reindeer venison has already been marketed in the tho United States and is pronounced superior supe supe- superior I to beef beet or mutton in flavor I Two freezing plants are being es established es- es in Alaska and regular shipments are promised in tn the eS 1 future |