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him the name of “Buffalo Jones.” In the Farmers Review 
of August 22, 1888, Mr. Jones stated the problem as fol- 
lows: 
(1) We want an animal that is hardy. 
(2) We want an animal with nerve and endurance. 
(3) We want an animal that faces the blizzards and endures th. storms. 
(4) We want an animal that will rustle on the prairies and not yield 
to discouragement. 
(5) We want an animal that will fill the above bill and make good 
beef and plenty of it. 
‘“All the above points could easily be found in the buf- 
falo,”’ continues Mr. Jones, ‘‘excepting the fifth, and even 
that is more filled as to the quality, but not in the quan- 
tity. Where is the ‘old timer’ who has not had a cut 
from the hump or the sirloin of a fat buffalo cow in the 
fall of the year, and where is the one who will not make 
an affidavit that it was the best meat he ever ate? Yes, 
the fat was very rich, equal to the marrow from the bone 
of domestic cattle.” 
The buffalo is the best suited of all animals to withstand 
those conditions which stockmen have found most inimical 
to domestic cattle. It can weather our western storms and 
blizzards and can withstand the hunger and cold that 
would kill our domestic steers. As Hornaday says: ‘‘When 
nature placed the buffalo on the treeless and blizzard-swept 
plains, she left him well equipped to survive whatever nat- 
ural conditions he would have to encounter.” Unlike do- 
mestic cattle, which usually drift before a storm and thus 
suffer an inevitable fate, the buffalo knows how to face 
the storm and endure it. And as regards its ability to 
withstand such conditions we have seen how the buffalo 
formerly wintered in the middle prairie region. 
It is on these facts, therefore, that the claim for a consid- 
eration of the possibility of domesticating the buffalo in 
