Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Wood-Eaters. [ARTICLE]

Wood-Eaters.

Wood in a certain form is a common and constant article of food in all sections of Siberia where the Yakut lives. North of Verchoyansk, except in a few sheltered valleys, there Is little food, aside from that afforded by fish, than that furnished by the larch. The natives eat it. however, because they like it. Even in sections where fish may be had wood usually forms part of the dative’s evening meal, as the many cleanly stripped larch logs near every hut testify. The natives strip off the thick layers immediately under the bark of a larch log, and, chopping it fine, mix it with snow It is then boiled in a kettle. Sometimes a bit of fish roe is added, and in the southern sections cow’s milk or butter. —Harper’s Weekly.