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Title: Raising Deer and Other Large Game Animals in the United States
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: David E. Lantz
Subjects: Game and game-birds--United States.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Biological Survey
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
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k, saving to the nation what yet remains,and using them as a nucleus for general domestication and distribution. Theseviews we will gladly furnish if desired. MANAGEMENT OF ELK IN INCLOSURES. The experience of Mr. Stratton at Little Valley, X. Y., recountedin the preceding pages, gives an excellent foundation for practice indeveloping a true domesticity in the wapiti; but for economic reasonsit may not always be possible for the raiser of the elk to adopt thesame methods. He may wish to grow the animals for venison onlyand on large preserves where the calves can not be tamed when young.But when the elk is grown for stocking parks and private preserves,the tamer the herd the easier will it be to handle and ship the stock. RANGE. The natural food supply is an important consideration in choosinga range for the elk. While elk have done well in blue-grass pas-ture and on the prairie grasses alone, they do far better on preserves Bui 36. Biologcal Survty, U. S. Dept ot Agricultur*. Plate VI
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MANACJKMKNT OF KLK. 37 which havo a variety of f(K)iI—jjrrasscs, hiishos, and troos. Kou^hhinds well watered by streams and having a (•(>nsidenil)le proportionof forested area are best adapted to their wants. On an avera^ suchhinds will support about the same number of elk as of cattle on the>:iine area without impairing the raiiire. There should be thicketsenough to furnish winter browse for the aninuils. A supply of winterforaire of other kinds will prevent the too rapid destruction of shrub-hcry in thickets. I ()()i). Except in times of snow, elk will kcej) in excellent condition onordinary ^rass pasture, but a system of mana<rement which re<rularlyfurnishes other food to the animals will be found better. For winter,hay and corn fodder furnish excellent forage; but alfalfa hay hasproved to be the most satisfactory dry food that can be ^ven toeither elk or deer. A little oats or corn, whole or chopped, may befed each day. Elk are fond of corn, and feeding corn and sa

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