The Lapps eat a considerable amount of meat, for each household of 4 people eats as much as a reindeer a week right from when the fishing stops to when the fish once again begin to take. It is worth asking whether this method of housekeeping could be made more economical. When he does not catch fish, the Lapp must either starve to death or slaughter reindeer during the summer. He owns no cattle or livestock other than his reindeer and his dogs, for he cannot trail any other creatures along with him on his wanderings. He eats wolverine, squirrel, pine-marten, bear and beaver when he can shoot them – everything, in fact, except fox and wolf otherwise his whole diet consists of reindeer, birds, fish and water. One reindeer a week is slaughtered for every 4 Lapps, and 1 reindeer is equivalent to 1/3 of an ox. That makes 30 reindeer during the winter, ie. 10 oxen, whereas a farmer gets quite sufficient from one.