Show domestication 0 of f the buffalo A gentleman is no noir domesticating the american buffalo it at stony stolly Maui loba stalling Hs herd iu in 1878 with four heifer calves lull ami one bull it no w numbers number sixty ono one head tile greater number pure buffalo the alic rest half breeds whence when we saw them in january all it verc sleek and fat anti anil yet they acro then living on oil lie open prairie and feeding on oil the prairie grasses rags covered by 4 snow at time lime ilia lie snow mow was deep and tile the thermometer had for ion long registered 20 degrees n or more below zero in ili january of the preceding a year ear one of the cows had calved on oil tile the plain at and lit although 11 a at t tile the time the registered 38 degrees below zero neither cow calf appeared to buffer in the least when it a blizzard comes on oil the alli animals mals lie iowa down to together mether with their backs to the wind and alow allow the snow low to drift over then them so that under tile the combined combined protection of their own woot wool anti and the snow they are quite juite warm not one of this hord has ever exhibited tile the sli slightest symptoms of disease disease althO although tIgh tile only they receive a Is is occasional watching to prevent them from straying way away thus winter and summer aley they live and thrive of the hare bare prairie with numbers hed by any of the ordinary cattle scourges urges and with expenses for care reduce li to aidini anuff in unit I 1 once a year ilia 0 arcil ITA cece 1 from ten tell to L o pounds POLLIS is IE shod shed and its manufacture into thick varin n arm cloth was at one time a r regular 0 ular industry it at winnipeg OV until it was discontinued by the extirpation I 1 tir of tile the acillis an nisim illIs ils in ill tile adjoining region in ili its market initial aluc the b buffalo i fralo is not behind ita smoother er lelath a for even if italic the quality lua lity of the meat bleat is 15 inferior the lite difference is more than llian made up by the life great arcag weight 0 of tile anti and 1 by y the lite value of tile robe which usually brings from ten tell to lo fifteen dollars As draught animals they have proved a 1 success for their great strength alj endurance and t 1 they are arc as easily if handled as ordinary oxen in ili one particular only is the buffalo fir far inferior to other oilier species of cattle and that is Is as a 1 but to the ran ranchman linian milk is really of no coil conci io I 1 clice mr I 1 the owner of tit the a herd hard after expel ill crog crosses ses is well sadi salaried fied with the lite hybrid as it is in more like tile the domesticated cow and is also a fair ut ilker yet we d otilit doubt diat liat this 0 train gain is suil lelent to compensate for llie ilia deter deterioration horation of the ilia fur while also it would bo be a malt crot endless re tet if lit in the life prosecution of these experiments the original pure race were lost the rate for illi case of the life buffalo ilio theoretically the lite same as with other othe r cattle is isi cally much higher tn on of tile the lomer rate of mortality when the present heral is sit ly increased it is intended to divide it among several sevc ril ranches I 1 in localities where once tit th wild buffalo found its choicest pastures this I 1 amounts almost to a 9 re stocking of tie lie buffalo region jui 1 |