In Buffalo Days 
away from the mountains, while in the au- 
tumn they worked back again, seeking shelter 
in the rough, broken country of the foot-hills 
from the cold west winds of the winter. 
The buffalo is easily tamed when caught 
as a calf, and in all its ways of life resembles 
the domestic cattle. It at once learns to 
respect a fence, and, even if at large, mani- 
fests no disposition to wander. 
Three years ago there were in this country 
about two hundred and fifty domesticated 
buffalo, in the possession of about a dozen 
individuals. Of these the most important herd 
was that of Hon. C. J. Jones, of Garden City, 
Kansas, which, besides about fifty animals 
captured and reared by himself, included also 
the Bedson herd of over eighty, purchased in 
Manitoba. The Jones herd at one time con- 
sisted of about one hundred and fifty head. 
Next came that of Charles Allard and Michel 
Pablo, of the Flathead Agency in Montana, 
which in 1888 numbered thirty-five, and has 
now increased to about ninety. Mr. Jones’s 
herd has been broken up, and he now retains 
only about forty-five head, of which fifteen 
are breeding cows. He tells me that within 
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