Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-08-12 | Page 5 | Local News

It Is all right for the government to establish a park for preset vlng tho buffalo nnd perpetuating the species, but we tnke no stock In all this "rot" about crossing the buffalo with tho Hereford nnd Tolled Angus for the pur-poso pur-poso of establishing a breed of cnttlo thnt will "survlvo the hard winters of tho western rango." In the first place, tho old-time cruel practice of wintering winter-ing cattlo on the rnnse Is rapidly being nbandoncd and, secondly, a. cross between be-tween the buffalo and domesticated cattlo -would develop the weak points of both. Breeding of tho crossed animals ani-mals would result ln a non-dcscrlpt nnd tho Inbreeding that would bo Inevitable In-evitable on the range would produce tho veriest scrubs.