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Tlie riglit-tliou^aiid arre buffalo p.asture in Wichita National Forest and (iaiiic PrcMTve — witli part 

 of the herd coming to be fed (photograph made in January). (The woven-wire fence, six feet high and 

 sixteen miles long, is heightened b.v two wires above and supi)orted by large oak or steel posts) 



His Majpst!/, "John Kerr." — Since his desperate encounter with "Black Dog'' last September, in 

 which he badly worsted his antagonist, this powerful five-year-old buffalo has been absolute monarch 

 over a realm of eight thousand acres and a herd of eighty-two buffaloes 



shaggy head. It was not long before 

 "Black Dog" advanced to within about 

 one hundred yards of the herd, then 

 halted, and again pawed up the earth, 

 while facing his adversary. After he 

 had thumped his hump harder and 

 tossed his heels higher than he ever 

 had before, he arose and shook his head 

 more fiercely than he had at any other 

 time, and advanced in a trot toward his 

 opponent. During all this time "John 

 Kerr" had likewise been threatening 

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battle, and now he trotted out of the 

 herd to meet his adversary. 



Then began as fierce a battle as ever 

 took place on the plains between two 

 members of the cow family. The two 

 maddened brutes clashed with the force 

 of a long line of freight cars bumping 

 together, and each received the other 

 on his horns. It was then very appar- 

 ent that each tried to receive the other's 

 blows on his horns and the top, or poll, 

 of his head; also, that those curved, 



