Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-09-19 | Page 14 | Buffalos Roaming North Dakota Ranch Owner Takes Special Interest in Herd

Buffalos Roaming North Dakota Ranch I Im m K Owner Takes Tales Special Interest In Herd tW G p- p pe e a e f r VY v 4 M a I Ia a d V- V s s1 IS Y 1 Part or of the buffalo Ier herd or of C Clarence arence Pal Packer ker kera at Minot N 1 D Dar on on onland la laPart land nd where their ancestors used to a roam r Parker ar kat er show shown b below e ow By fly KEA XEA Service MINOT N D Sept Sopt 19 But 19 tabs whose whoso ancestors ranged the same Mme prairie lands a R century and more ago are aro being raised on or of the tho large stock farm tarm of at Clar- Clar Clarence Clarence Clar Clarence ence 11 II Parker near this city With a rolling pasture or of o acres aNS the Parker herd of or buffalos but falos Is being permitted to grow until It will tax the capacity capacity of or orthe the ranch Theirs however Is only a small part of ot the Immense Parker ranch ot of acres I For or Parker owns sonic some head of or cattle halt of at which are aro highly valued purebred pure pure- purebred pure purebred bred Herefords There Thero are also registered Red Polled beef beer cat cat- cattle cat cattle tle lie and some pure bred l bred ure-bred horses v The rhe entire ranch is Is s operated as a stock raising venture with only enough crops grown to 10 Insure acres under cultivation more than 1000 acres are aro mea mea- meadowland mca mca-dowland dowland and the tho rest Is open to the stock for tor grazing Due to the modern Irrigation methods Parker expects to bar har- barvest harvest har harvest vest about 2000 tons of or hay from the large meadow on the farm tarm The valley alley has bas yielded as high as 2400 tons of ot hay hoy of or the high high- high class class blue Crass grass variety Parker Is especially Interested In the rearing of at his buffalo herd Its It's a small herd today but re expects to bring It up to moro more than head within two years cars Parker has sentimental reasons for g buffalos on his hll ranch Wealthy sportsman and hotel owner of at o Minot he ho recalled the days when these animal animals roamed the very ery land he now owns and when they were shot down almost to annihilation by Indians and whIte hunters Forty years ago Parkers Parker's ranch ranh was headquarters for tor a II buffalo bone gathering Industry of or large proportions as a 0 result of or these ruthless slaughters Now he wants to bring them back baek to their own not only as specimens of ot American stock but butas butas butas as valuable meat animals He has started with 23 3 buffalos seven even ot of them males He lie expects to have ha 00 In a few ew years Buffalo cows have calves ev- ev every every ev every ery other year Several calves will bo be born on the tho Parker ranch this year Cows will not mote mate the next year ear after raising a calf calt The result will be an over over- overabundance over overabundance abundance of bull calves a 0 battle for or supremacy amon among them and the exile of ot the physically weak weak- weaker weaker weaker er bulls from tram the tho herd During the tho summer the tho buffalo herd Is left out on the tho ranch with only a 0 wire fence ence keeping them tram from wandering In winter how how- however however how however ever they ore are placed In more mOle substantial quarters to keep them from following their roaming In- In Instinct instinct In Instinct Parker values his ranch at