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Show BUILDING UP BUFFALO HERDS Department of Agriculture Has .Had Gratifying 8ucces With This Part of Its Work. Forty-six new buffalo calves are reported re-ported on thrco of tho four gamo preserves pre-serves maintained by tho biological survey of tho United States Dopurt-mont Dopurt-mont of Agriculture for the special protection of buffalo. On tho national bison range, la Montana, thero are 417 buffalo, including 28 calves bom this spring. Fifteen calves aro reported at the Wind Cavo preservo, in South Dakota, Da-kota, and S at Niobrara, Neb. Tho department has been very, fortunate In maintaining tho herds established at theso three points and at Sullys Hill, North Dakota. Thero aro relatively few largo buffalo herds now scattered over tho country, and tho biological survey bus made special efforts to provido sultablo ranges And protection for what threatened a fow years ago to becomo an extinct species of natlvo American animal. |