Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 11, 1920, Page 3

e e e WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1920 e ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— e —————————————— olden Gereal Goffes NEW SOURCE OF FOOD SUPPLY Suggestion Made That Musk 0x Be Added to National Bill of Fare. VAST HERDS IN THE NORTH Practically a Permanent Supply of Beef Assuned by Domestication of the Animal, According to Vilhjalmur Stefansson. ‘Washington.—Having already done remarkably well in reindeer farming in Alaska, Uncle Sam is to be asked now to try his hand with musk oxen, 1o the end that the national meat bill may be cut down and a permanent supply of beef ensured. Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson brought back from the arctics a story of great pos- sibilitles in the way of meat produc- tion. He told this story’ t@ members of the Canadian parliament in Otta- we, and has also laid his facts and conclusions before some of the Wash- ington officials. Bath governments will be asked for appropriations to ex- tend the reindeer industry and to at- tempt the domestication of the musk orx. As Stefansson sees it, there are at least a million square miles of natur- al grazing ground in the sub-arctics, suited in every particular to the needs and tastes of the northern caribou and the still more northern musk ox. Vast herds of these animals. in the wild roam over the so-called “barren jands.” Why not take them under protection, turn their feeding ranges fnto ranches and abattoirs and ship the meat to the hungry folks down south? The territory is Oanadian, ‘dut the hunger and high cost of Mv- ing are international; therefore, let the two countries co-operate in a scheme of conservation. Reindeer Meat Liked. Alaska and Labrador have proved that the reindeer can be domesticated into a public meat: producer. Deer meat has been shipped from Nome and other Alaskan points to Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago and even to New York, and people who have bought it have asked for more. Stef- ansson now suggests that the business be taken up seriously, its herding and ranching extended to the great prairies of the Canadian North, and the supply of meat to the whole con- tinent begun on a really coxmercial basis. But he ventures still farther and urges a similar experiment with the musk oxen. Now, the musk ox, being a peculiar- {y arctic anlmal, has never before fig- ared in the American scheme of mar- keting. In its own country, however, it is greatly valued f®¢ its meat’s sake, and explorers who have eaten | musk ox roasts, up there say it is a pity that the Eskimos should have a monopoly of so good a diet. The meat 18 hardly distinguishable in taste, it seems, from regulation beef, and in nutritive value is quite its equal. There is wool to be considered, too. The average sized musk ox carries 15 pounds of just-as-good-as-sheep’s wool, which it wears as a thick cold-proof vest under a shaggy hair topcoat. In fact, the musk ox is pretty nearly as much sheep as cattle. It is two and one-half or three times the size of a sheep, running about 700 pounds, and is in that same proportion a more prolific source of raw material for suits and socks. Thick-set, with massive head and short legs, the musk ox looks clumsy, but is surprisingly nimble on its feet. It travels usually in herds of 25 or 30, and its feed is grass, saxifrage plants and dwarf willows. Stefansson points out, as an argument in favor of his subpolar ranching scheme, that the musk ox needs neither to be housed nor fed, being quite able to fend for itself and even to protect jtself against wolves. ¥ Provides Beef, Milk and Wool. The habitat of this zoological non- descript, which gives beef as tender as a prize steer's, milk as rich as Jersey cream and wool as good as a sheep's, is the very “top country” of America. The herds never come farther south than halfway down the coast of Hudson bay, and they do not go west of the Mackenzie river. On the north they roam along the arctic mainland coast and on the islands be- vond. There does not seem to be any good reason, however, why the musk ox could not be kept successfully within the nearer bounds of the “bar- ren lands,” or in Alaska, where trans- portation facilities would be more easily possible. Nearly enough like the musk ox to be a distant cousin, the woodland buf- falo is another denizen of the North that may some day be made the base of a new meat supply. His habits are somewhat the same as those of the aretic ox, but the country that he in- habits is an area of wooded land at the extreme north of Alberta, west of Slave river. Through the forests of this region roam small buffalo herds, whose total numbers probably do not exceed 500 head. They are the only survivors in a natural state of the countless bison that once covered the western plains. A True Sport. Women have been accused of lack of sportsmanship; yet was a woman ever known to beat a carpet when it was ‘down?—Boston Transcript. msteren 1o THe secect! (IUICK RELIEF fR[]M_ Pastor’s Congregation Might Be Few in Numbers but Their Gentility Was Unquestioned. Nearly every one of about 800 churches thar we have in Philadelphia is peculiarly interested at present in the problem of getting people—partic- ularly men—to uattend the services. Some one cited yesterday a conver- sation with the pastor of a dwindling flock in Virginia. The good old man was making a poor fist of it as a preacher, or even as a shepherd of his flock, it was plain; but he was not discouraged. Had he cared to count heads from the pulpit he might have felt concerned, but apparently he was content as long as anybody came to hear him, for his church was endowed and was inde- pendent of the collection plate. The Philadelphia sojourner, how- ever, was bold enough to hint that the congregation might be larger in view of the size of the town. “Some of the other churches here appear to be pretty well filled,” he re- marked. The clergyman made a deprecatory gesture with both hands, as if repell- Ing the false doctrine, heresy and schism that flourished In the neighbor- Ing churches. “Of course there are other ways of seeking salvation,” he said, “but no gentleman would take advantage of them.”—F. L. W, in Philadelphia Ledger. . MADE WEALTHY BY TUNGSTEN Colorado Prospector Had the Laugh on Men Who Had Previously Derided His Notion. Without the discovery of its utility for making the filament used in elec- tric lighting, tungsten would still be a produce regarded by gold and silver mining prospectors as a nuisance, be- cause it so often interrupted their search for the precious metals. Be- fore that discovery tungsten, when found, was immediately thrown away ; but now the tale is told of a young mining engineer, looking for gold in the mountains of Colorado, who struck tungsten instead, and decided to make the best of his discovery, in the hope that it would increase in value. The price when he made his decislon was about $8 for 20 pounds; at the begin- ning of the war in Europe, it rose to $55, and his ore was worth $3,850 a ton, or as much as gold ore. In the spring of 1915, the price had gone higher, and his neighborhood in the mountains was alive with other men looking for tungsten, often the same men who, a f8w years earlier, had laughed at him and nicknamed him “Tungsten Tim.” So, at least, runs the story, which is believable enough in view of the statement that, in 1917, there were sold in the United States, 165,000,000 tungsten-filament lamps. to say nothing of 75.000,000 smaller ones. —Exchange. Persimmon Juice Valuable. All over Japan flourishes t e per- simmon tree, although the be.: speci- mens grow in the warmer parts of the empire, and the belief is current that the juice of the persimmon is des- | tined to cosmopolitan importance, says the Christian Science Monitor. So far the use of persimmon juice in pig- ments is hardly known outside of Japan, but such is its proved value in that country that it is expected to be- come an important article of export, valuable alike to those who paint pic- tures and those who paint houses. The juice of the persimmon is especially useful in mixing paints in damp coun- tries. More than that, it makes an adhesive which Is affected neither by heat nor by water, und is therefore valuable in making packing paper, um- breNas, raincoats, paper boxes, water- proof cloth, and for producing gldss on silk, tortoise shell and other smaoth substances. Lacquer Secret Well Kept. The Japanese have succeeded fin keeping the knowledge of their famous lacquer a national secret. 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