Show WATER BUFFALOES message of ot the president to Con Congress on gross gress on Jan 7 culling calling attention to the serious calamity that has ms befallen the tho Filipinos und rind asking for tot an appropriation tion ion tp t meet Int the emergency was wall of oC value HH as showing allowing cause cau of oC the thu prevailing In the Philippine 1 It has hns been known for ter some IOme time that tho the lIce Hoe crop rop the tool Sooty staple of or the In Is Inlands lands MRS wae largely l u a failure but the let letter ter tor of f Hc Hoot toot on which the preel presidents dents menage me se Is IB gives KIvell the first Information as 11 Jo the tho cause tauso au e of or tile calamity Secy Sec toot Hoot says s In hie totter letter lott r that DU 00 tit per cent ot or the water buffaloes the drouth animals of oC tho the Islands upon elan which the natives fur for their cultivation ot of o the rice I e C melt n u v to ol uy t una tit with the result that the rice rioe crop crap crapIA IH IA 11 a It failure allure This Thill has hu been followed by b an epidemic of or cholera chelem alsO the distress has hall become very ery acute A who Is acquainted v with the Philippine islands told i n reporter that lie he b tho the among tho water buffaloes was bid true the of at these Useful hs had undoubtedly been groat and some Home years i elapse lapi hl sc benne be tare loio the tho t hI Islands would recover r from front th the blow It If we were re overtaken by b a misfortune causing the thi lusts luss of ot nearly all our farm Carm animals UP we 1 might ought realize what the thc crl cri cried ed slit actually Is iii In III tho the great rice districts or of the tho Philippines The Tho water buffalo IH b the only onh example of or the lie turning laming for domestic dome tlc purposes of ot any AllY of It th lilt group of ot wild willI buffaloes that are Utu found In hi India China Chita and Africa The he d animal 1 to too o In India Inella but It has hall spread over Ocr the Orient rient und and has tole ov n been introduced into Inlo Europe Its It wild ore now most abet prom prominent In Those These families of ot buffalo s me are not related to la our so called coiled buffalo more moro properly designated as on the bison Nobody Knows know whoa when or how hot the wild willI buffalo was 1311 ai turned tamed und nod became one ot or the tho most useful rul of or brute servants These r leee animals anin uis are mentioned In ancient literature but not is liB domesticated This The first I 1 lo to write of them described them MB as animals of or very ery curl title appearance which he hits saw In A AD AD D In the alley of ot the Jordan A trove her ler In the H valley Riley In wax was tho the first to GI report r Jott their arrival In the swamp there They were nere owned by hy the lime Aruba A rubs und and the writer said Raid RUI third that the tho men rind and animals led almost an nn aquatic aqua tic life L A They he were Introduced Into rg pt long longa ago a o and play IlIa a great role roll In the till agri agriculture agriculture culture of that country Their Import Importance mice ance there lien has greatly Increased since the early caily port part of ot the tho last century when neatly nearly nil all the CAttle of or Egypt were killed by b rpt Strange to 10 say sa the buffaloes of that dry day wore were said to the tho plague 1 though now their relatives have hwo succumbed In the Philip Phil 11 pint pines In tho the A Ages gas gO they tho were valued as liB farm animals in what Is la l now But and In the tire lowlands la of oC the Dan ban Danube ube and many of ot them are today In Inthe Inthe inthe the service of oC Crimean The only European land In III which they ate are now note of much mach importance Is In the part of o Italy where they the are helpful In III tilling the rice fields In its swampy regions re The Orient la Is the She great t field of ot use usefulness usefulness for tor this animal The fhe buffalo has spread nil all over OUT India und and tho the Indian In Indian dian Illan archipelago and und IH la found In great numbers In south China and Japan It J 1 is railed the water buffalo because It Is U fond ton of ot lying for tor houra hours In water or mud mut partly foully for the cooling Influence of or the bath ath because It II thus thua escapes ei es tapes capes the insect ItI lCt puts pests which annoy It ItHa Its Ha greatest utility IB is In hauling the Im hn Implement between a plough and n 1 rake with which the muddy are nrc I cultivated Hundreds Hundred of ot thousands of ot otI I them have thus thull been b n employed In the fields of or the Philippines I When Dr nr Hahn wrote Ms great work on an domestic animals seven loen years ago ngo he hG expressed l the opinion that tho rho water buffalo was as worthy worth ot of far Car Wider button than it lend hull yet et attained lIe He paid said there tjore were ere lurge regions along alon the Amazon and In the thu I U Ecuador and Colombia as aH well ell clI us as In the low o lands Inside of Mexico whore where the tile water venter hut but buffalo Solo falo could be bo made far tar more inure useful than oxen oxell or hOr he predicted that the time lime wan teon approaching when this valuable animal animal would bo IJo Introduced widely both In the tho hot liot parts ls of oC America and In tho the tropical regions of or Africa NeW Ken ew York Sun Sim |