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Excerpt from United States Department of Agriculture: Department Bulletin No, 1423, October, 1926 Two types of harness are used in driving sled reindeer, one with a single pulling tug fastened under the chest and running between the hind legs, and the other with two tugs and a singletree, as used with a horse or dog (pl. 3, figs. 2 and In the first case the tug is usually made of a strip of reindeer skin, since this is less apt to chafe the legs of the animal. Both kinds of harness are satisfactory. A wooden collar is used, made in two pieces to fit arormd the neck, the ends fastened together by. Thongs. To this collar are fastened the side-straps leading to a body-band, which encircles the animal just back of the forelegs. When the singletree is used, the tugs. One on each side, are fastened to the body-band and are continuations of the straps leading from the collar. In the single-tug type, the tug is fastened to the harness and to the sled by means of a wooden toggle inserted into a loop. For guiding sled reindeer two driving lines attached to the halter are used. The animal is started by ¿ipping one of the lines across the back and over the root of the tail, and is guided to the right or left by jerking one line or the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.