Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Crossbred Yaks to Feed Alaskans. [ARTICLE]

Crossbred Yaks to Feed Alaskans.

No breed of dairy or beef cattle has as yet been found hardy enough to stand the winters in the interior of Alaska without excessive expense for food and protection against cold. As a result milk sells for 50 cents a quart and the beef that is consumed in the country consists almost wholly of cold storage meat brought from the outside. The Journal of Heredity says that the Alaska Experiment station has undertaken to relieve this situation by crossing the hardy Scotch Galloway cattle with the yak, an Asiatic ox much used by Mongolians, Tibetans, etc., for milk and meat as Well as work. The yak. pastures through the winter under the open sky in Siberia and obtains feed from last year’s grass dug from under the snow. Crosses of the yak with domestic cattle are common in Asia and highly successful.