Show NEW NEs SOURCE OF I FOOD SUPPLY Suggestion Made That Musk Ox Oz Be Added Adde to National Bill of Fare VAST HERDS IN THE NORTH J Practically a Permanent Supply of Beef Assured by Domestication of the Animal According to Washington Washington Having Having already done dono remarkably well In reindeer farming In Alaska Uncle Sam Is to be asked now v to try hl his hand with musk o oxen en to the end that the national meat 1111 may be cut down and a a a. permanent supply of beef beet ensured Explorer I brought back from the a n story of great possIbilities possibilities pos pos- In the way of ot meat prod production c- c tion He tie told toM this story to members ers of the Canadian parliament In Ottawa Otta Otta- wa wn and has ns also laid his facts find and conclusions before some of the Washington Well Wash Wn Wellington 11 ington officials Both go governments go will be asked for tor appropriations to ex extend extend ex- ex I. I tend the reindeer tr and to attempt it t. tempt the domestication of the musk mk m isk ox As son sees aces It there arc are at t least enst a million square miles of ot natural a al grazing ground in the tub sub sub-arct r suited In e every ever r particular to the tho needs nl s and ti tl tastes tes of 01 the northern caribou and the still more mor northern north m 1 musk i ox Vast herds of these the se e animals m iu flue file wild roam over o the so so called called barren harren lands Why not take them under tinder 1 der protection turn their feeding ranges Into ranches and abattoirs and ship the the meat to the hungry folks foks down south The territory Is Canadian but the hunter hunger and heb hh cost of lIyIng living living liv lIy- ing are l l 1 therefore let t the two counti countries Ics co operate co-operate In a scheme schem of conservation Reindeer Meat Liked Aa Alaska ka and Labrador have ha proved pro that the fie can be domesticated Into n a public meat ment producer Deer meat has been shipped from Nome Nome- and other Alaskan At points to Seattle Minneapolis Chicago and even en even evento to New Nev York rore and people who ho wh have ha II bought It have have ask or t t f y I w- w Ln s. s I RY ii now lOW ti 1 tO t tl a be taken up lip i i pt J e l tad and lQ ranching extended to to r prairies of It UJ the and N rth the pH T of f uncut meat nt to Hm top OnT 1 h begun begins on a It really 1 hll I Cut But ho Ill A ventures I till further farther and urges a n similar hl j the thin musk oxen o I Now the musk ox being a peculiarly peculiar peculiar- ly Iy arctic animal has Ims never pr before 1 n In the Hip nn scheme of marketing mar mar- marketing keUn In Its o own conn country try however PT I It Is greatly valued l Its moats meats sake r. and explorers who ha have eaten aten I musk mush ox roasts up there In any sa saIr It Ir I Is a pity that hunt the E should have o a monopoly of o so o good oo 1 a n diet The rhe The meat 11 meat t tIR Is IR hardly distinguishable In taste It g seems ml from finin regulation beef he mid and In nutritive c t alue ahle Is quite Its equal There Is wool to be ho con considered too too The Tho average n sized 1 lin musk ik ox o ie 15 13 pounds of just Just good as good oo as nR Ih's s which It wears vears as ns a thick cold vest cst t t under a 1 shaggy hair topcoat nt In fact the mash mu-jk o o axis oIs Is pretty nearly nearh as I much sheep hep as ns cattle It ls s t two and an andone one one half half or three thre times tie the size of or a n r-he r sheep p running about pounds and find andIs andis Is In that same sime proportion a n more mare raw for prolific source of 01 raw rw material suits salts and socks Thick Thick- Thicket Thick et with mas massive p I head and find short hoit legs the I ox IX looks ch clumsy m y but hut I Is am sn nimble on Its feet It travels tia usually in m herds heids of 25 or 30 and Its feed ped Is glass l saxifrage e plants and dwarf willows willow Ste n points out ut as an nn nr argument In favor or r of his i ranching inching home Matthe Mat t at th the m 1 musk k ox 11 needs 18 neither to be housed nor fed f fed lt h hoeing being quite able ahle to 17 f t ai I ir r 1 t v h I lii t h I protect rt f i 1111 v vs t f h 1 I. I s 0 p ov Beef S cf Milk Mille and Wool Th The hit p of pf his zoological nl non non- S Ir 1 je I Ives beef p p as tender ts' ts n a in prize Iw v ti rs milk its as rich a II as I l' l ic im a 1111 1 is ni I good us as a i l i i th III n I 1 top tOIl tOJ country Of Ir 1111 ica i i Thc ThC ber IH nl is II never come fart i r si t III nili II Mi Ihan I in i II down n the th et 51 tt of or I unison inch tin buy I and 11 they do not noto 20 0 o isi of r Ih 1110 ie rl ei On OnN I N hl mi Mi tit 1 i t i 1 tin lIw arctic in 1 l ii t ind on fill U tI a Islands be be- bero ro ld T f re dots not seem N to lo be any an all nut nod In i I m in n. n however II win why the musk 04 could m uni 1101 i he be c kept II I t IP Ie I CI haunch of ot the blur bIl b u ut et t mauls mils ov or in ill Tn where c J u fi would world lie Ile more sll 11 pas lo K SM itlo III f Nearly ail t li like litH the musk ox to 0 a Q II di t n the woodland burl burl- ilo alo Is denzen dm mi of the tint hai irn some du day y 11 h he mode made the HIP tease base If f I new IMP meat ment it supply Ills habits are ln t l the lilt snipe RI as those of the ox X Imf bat tilt the that he In In- habits is i an nn urea ur roa o of or wooed land at t athe atthe he the of 1 Alberta west pst of Slave Sla II f i Through h the forests of ot this jp legion lop roan mam small buffalo herds hoil e tot total il n numbers probably do not e x cl tie head ul They ase the only onh h gur survivors sur I In In a n natural 11 11 state of pt the countless bison bison that once cO covered co the western plains |