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Show REINDEER OF THE FAR NORTH i Herd of Animals Imported Several ; Years Ago From Labrador Have ! Greatly Increase in Numbers. Though perhaps most of us, young $d old, associate reindeer chiefly wltn Santa's jingling bells, still there are, besides the dear, familiar phantom reindeer, the very real reindeer who are serving a very real and much-needed much-needed mission among the people of the far North, among whom Dr. Wll-fred Wll-fred T. Grenfell works and lives his T&fe of brotherly aid and uplift, Mary M. Davis writes In Our Dumb Animals. About six years ago Doctor Grenfell Imported from Labrador a herd of reindeer, rein-deer, number about 400, which during their six years In Newfoundland have IncreRsed to somewhere between 700 and 1,000. The idea of bringing them from their native Luplaad was suggested sug-gested to Doctor Grenfell by the great abundance of reindeer moss in New- j foundalnd. The reasons for the ex-; perlment are many and far reaching. lf The reindeer are valuable, not only I "for their rich and delicious milk' which would be a boon Indeed to the i dwellers of that northern part of Newfoundland New-foundland In, which Doctor Grenfell works but also are invaluable as beasts of burden. In every way they are as well adapted to the requirements require-ments of the North as are the Komatik dogs, which In many ways are an absolute ab-solute menace to the development of the country. |