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Title: Raising deer and other large game animals in the United States
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest)
Subjects: Deer farming Game and game-birds
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Biological Survey
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Bui. 36, Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate V.
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ELK IN THE OZARK MOUNTAINS. 35 Question 8. Is there at this time, or would there be in case the laws wererevised, any general demand for elk meat? At what price? Answer. In answer to this question, we can be guided only by the verylimited demand, owing to the law prohibiting the sale of elk meat. We do,however, receive orders from parties not familiar with the law, and lettersfrom many asking us if we are permitted to sell. From the fact that ashigh as $1.50 per pound has been paid for this meat in New York City andCanada, and that the best hotels and restaurants pronounce it the finest of allthe meats of mammals, we are of the opinion that if the laws were such thatdomesticated elk meat could be furnished it would be many years before thesupply would make the price reasonable compared with other meats. Question 9. What price per pound would you consider necessary to make theproduction of elk meat profitable? Answer. Elk meat can be produced in many sections of this country forless co

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