SCRATCHES UP A LIVING
Itchy Muskox Furnishes Trade for
Alaskan Co-Eds.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 17. (AP)
—When the ungainly muskox stops
scratching his back, some Alaskan
co-eds will have to find new ways to
earn an education.
The muskox, late of Greenland, has
hair too tough to cut, but he scratches
his back on bushes and leaves enough
of his coat to make wool-gathering
a profitable business.
Using an Indian process hundreds
of years old, the college girls weave
the wool into scarfs, mufflers and
mittens.
Even President Roosevelt has received muskox wearables from the coeds of the Alaska college of agriculture, which owns the animals.
