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more than a yard in height and has a live weight of about 260 lb.
Its chief food is the reindeer moss which, during the winter
time, it scrapes out from under the snow with its broad strong
hoofs. It provides the Lapps writh meat, milk, skin, etc., and
the largest bucks are also used as draught-cattle during their
constant wanderings. The Lapps roam on the highest mountains
above the tree limit, and it is only during the winter that they
come down every now and then into the lower districts, where
the reindeer herds do much damage to the forests. The Lapp
family that is to live on its herd of reindeer must have at least
two to three hundred head; and many have a thousand or more.
To guard their animals the Lapps use their well-trained dogs
which are of the same breed as the Eskimo dog. At the latest
census there were altogether 170,000 reindeer in the country,
but the number is now increasing, as several of the peasantry
have also commenced to keep reindeer herds on the mountain
pastures.
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