Animal products; . avy. From Southern Russia we have deer horns lighter thanthe Indian, but heavier than the German, and the antlers of thereindeer are lighter and more porous than any others. Thesurface is nearly white and smooth, and consequently they aremuch less valuable. The number of horns to the ton necessarily varies according totheir size, ranging from 700 to 2,000. Taking the imports fromthe East at 350 tons, and assuming an average number of 1,400horns to the ton, it would appear that the fall as it is termedof 245,000 head of deer is annually collected there for the use ofour manuf
Animal products; . avy. From Southern Russia we have deer horns lighter thanthe Indian, but heavier than the German, and the antlers of thereindeer are lighter and more porous than any others. Thesurface is nearly white and smooth, and consequently they aremuch less valuable. The number of horns to the ton necessarily varies according totheir size, ranging from 700 to 2,000. Taking the imports fromthe East at 350 tons, and assuming an average number of 1,400horns to the ton, it would appear that the fall as it is termedof 245,000 head of deer is annually collected there for the use ofour manufacturers. The Greenland Company of Denmark receivesabout 30,000 reindeers horns or antlers yearly. The fine elk horns exported from Germany are getting scarcerevery year, for the forests decrease, and the native cutlery manufac-ture extends. The cut on the next page shows a pair of antlers in the Museum DEER HORNS. 183 •of the College of Surgeons, which have a span of 35 inches, andare 7 inches apart at the antlers of elk or moose (Alces machlis, Ogilby). The value of the different kinds of stag-horn is in the followingorder : German, Italian, Russian, and English. The total importsof stag-horn into Britain are estimated at about 700 tons yearly. Deer-horns form a large item of commerce, in many 26,000 pairs are annually shipped from Siam. In 1869,1,433 cwt. of deer-horns were shipped from Ceylon, valued at£2 per cwt. They consist of the horns of the Rusa deer(Cervus hififielaphus, Ogilby) and of the spotted deer {Axismaculata). In Cashmere the antlers of the Hungul or Persiandeer {Cervus Wallichii) shed early in spring, are picked up inthe forests by the villagers, and form an article of export trafficwith Ladak. Deer Skins.—There is a large commerce in deer skins invarious countries, although we do not receive very many here,probably about 80,000 are imported annually, for the most partundressed, which are tanned into leather for various
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