48 1963 Journal 6 Aug Lunch, Hank helped me with the last half of the colony work. He was interested in what I did & how. The wind shifted from the east to the south to the west. This brought rain about 1430 and the wind increased to over 30 mph by 1700. I helped Dave for a half hour before dinner finishing some blood serum analyses. John Johnson also went with Holmes to Skroanik. He captured 9 lemmings there. This area seems to be possibly full of lemmings. Holmes states he has seen lemmings each time he has gone there. 7 Aug Barrow, Alaska Holland and I started the colony by 0800 and finished all routine work except for a few by 1000. Holland had to leave to help Prepa with clipping so I finished the routine work and cleaned. I set up new animals on data sheets and tried to give a lemming the special powder diet in a paste form. After the paste had dried, one, the lemming did eat some but still needed a drink (a long one) to help wash down the food. When fresh powder in paste form was put in the cage, the lemming did not touch it. The last metabolic experiment was completely designed for its start tomorrow. Adequate numbers are present to run the large powder diet experiment but with 32 animals instead of 64. More powder is being ordered in case the experiment works and most animals survive. There's enough