Show BUFfALO ROBES SOFT AS Sill SILK Result of Crossing America American I IBison Bison With Domestic Cattle Catle BUFFALO JONESS JONES'S SUCCESS I Warden of Cf ton tone Pam Pai PamI ParI I las lias lus Muk t E. in II Producing lm Furs FI When hen President Hoose el made hi his last vIsit to the lie Yellowstone Park and wrapped himself In one omie che u c uthe the he new crossbred buffalo bural robes robes robes-a a sor soft as silk sik and as large larg-c as a n parlo rug rug lie he expressed delight ht delg-ht and aston Yeas Yea's Years Yeam's before C C. T T. i Buffalo Jones game warden of oC the thc Yellow Yellowstone stone stomie Park ParI began his ii I In crossing buffalo wI with domestic breed breet of cattle catte anti and anI Mr Roosevelt said Ilie I Ilie IC ICho lie ho could succeed in rivaling the old old- fashioned buffalo bufalo robe rohe he lie would ac ac- ac wonders So when the thC lie presIdent pres pres- Ident blent rec recently nt saw sw the tho Imren Immense c silk milk t robes dark cut curly cUI and amid resplendent like Russian sable cable he told Mr Ir Jones Jonc ho lie had luaU fame before him So great grat has been een tIme the success of tin tle hi experiment that thai the he government na ha las lassel sol met aside an immense Immen tract ot of land ii im II Arizona for fOl a great ranch ami amid tin further ther development dC of oC thc cr s- s bred ed buffaloes When Mr Mi rr Jones s came to New Neim York o oC the Ihie other day to receive u IL I cargo cat black lilack Galway cattle from guru Iut I h hi he was kvas med ash for an au Interview Well I will wi answer b by giving nr gi ar mir fn account of r my experience L ln a Ill II my J native place J I mottled In tern southwestern lau Kaunas Kausas 1 amid ld established n a cattle calIe ranch In Iii 11 1631 luring the tho terrible winter whiter long bug to b be le 1 lost so I man ninny many cattle cuttle thai hot there here seemed no mm future In iii the Lime l usi- usi n loss ess Were Il Pat Fat While hUe hunting for foi fot the fuw few ed d star left lel over in the Iho lie spring spring I observed ed that while the plains were covered with wih dead herds as fat far south as is Lii Texas in not miot a single le case did Imd I 1 Ind md a n dead buffalo TIme hC They were fat mil and smooth and 1 saw w several everal small smal tends herds in what was then No Mans Man's L and ind now Oklahoma Among mong the he Kindreds of thousands of or dead cattle cuttle not lot one carcass carca of buffalo appeared That hat set et me mo thinking 1 thought long bug md and deep only onh graft a I thought bought if wo we could on omi some come of our native nat e stock and anti hardy breed nil and produce e a new wo ro ie would revolutionize Ic the cattle catle bus- bus Ines ness hess But I never dreamed of ot tho the possibilities in hi producing pi an anut ut proved buffalo robe Iobe In n the tho old days when then vast buffalo herds herd roamed the hams lall you could buy IH the lie best bel robes Jobes for or 01 10 or U 15 5 and anti sometimes t two or 01 three handsomely decorated Indian 10 obos obes for a 15 5 gun n It It I is a well wel IU fact that the tho tt buffalo has a hart hard hud no nose e with which U It I roots like IkC a ahe eg cli through the tho hardest hartle t no he latter how hmo deep down through to tolie the lie ic grass rass Nature has tau taught ht buffaloes how lion to j live Ivo and amid keep fat Cat in the lie widest wildest eather The They will wi not only find plenty plen- plen after the fiercest of or ty f S. grass ird irti but If IC there thero Is a n shortage they wi ill luxuriate on oti the roots of an any 1 ind of herbage as os well as bushes and nd ad the limbs and buds of cos ces No o matter mailer mater how hiow terrible a bus bite bl- bl mi may be bo buffaloes turn tun their faces to I the rio storm and will wl stand for days daysi In i a boating boating norther that would kill killio kl tho 10 io fattest American cattle or drive them tern hundreds of oC miles mies southward Made lale With these facts before beCort me mc I de- de to experiment but I soon mud found that tho the secrets of nature arc nic not Dt to be bo had liati for the thc asking askin and It 08 as years cats before success seemed scorned ar Others who were cie experiment experiment- ing US along the lie same samue nl line lino lne bt became dis ills j 1 and tOday loday but few are in iii inthe inthe the lie Industry With J one exception I Iam Iam Iam am accredited with being the on only man ure uro who ho 1 has not nOl made a n practical failure fail fail- fal- fal Tho The craze for Cor buffalo bufalo robes covered covered cover ler ed cd the thic plains with wih hunters and it was not nol long before the American was nearl nearly extinct But Dut for tot government government gov soy interference there would not be a buffalo bufalo alive today When hen I began buffaloes were so wild wid there was vas wa nothing to do but capture the lie calves I finally filially got rs ant began to tn hybridize hybrid hybrid- ize ize Iz crossing the lh buffalo bulls with domestic cows cons Failure followed I my him first attempt but hul I was wan not miot entirely ly and at last out of C 96 G cows I managed to raise two calves After years ars of experiment I 1 was ws able ablo to fave ae 60 per ier er cent of oC our calves 1 Still Sti It I was fR all au al uncertainty and it I was as asmore more moro b by accident and amid awkwardness than anything el else c that hat I stumbled on the secret et of successfully propagating the he now brood breed o of animals which I 1 have p named catalo not not as ns some Rome people spell the lie the name nam Catalo I line Fine SAt At A t last when I got got a fair fall start of ot the hybridized h catalo cataio It was then lieu easy as to Increase the new breed as all al tho the females were ivero fertile and all al the lie half breeds were females I found that the three quarter bulls buIs were not fertile but bul I believe the eighths en e buffalo bufalo and antI one eighth catalo cataio will wi be fertile ferte At any rate the Industry Is growing a-growing a success I now non have an animal that thatis is third one-third larger than either of o Its Is ancestors buffalo ancestors buffalo or 0 cattle The meat Is delicious and arid the lie animals keep keel faton faton fat faton on an any kind of food It I is a fact act that all al the hardy qualities of or the buffalo are arc retained In Jut breeding The Time buffalo dominates it I is the strongest typo hence honce we have a n breed that will wi actual actually lIvo on sticks and straw and does docs not care for high feeding ceding or sheds led or barns barns Our cows cow keep so o fat while running loose on the tho lie plains that hint we wo have to put them in iii corrals c and cut cul off or their teed feel during the breeding sea season on to reduce flesh e h. h Cows weigh a ton Ion on each and the thus steers average from roam 2700 to pounds The Fhe fur fum- CU of oC the lie catalo when broth bred with wih black blaek Galway Gah stock is like otter oter or or beaver baver and anti the lie lustie lustre equals the tIme finest t Russian sable I never sold oll a robe for or less than OO |