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the past year or two he has sold over sixty 
pure buffalo, and that nearly as many more 
have died through injuries received in trans- 
porting them by rail. 
Mr. Jones is the only individual who, of re- 
cent years, has made any systematic effort to 
cross the buffalo with our own domestic cattle. 
As far back as the beginning of the present 
century, this was successfully done in the 
West and Northwest; and in Audubon and 
Bachman’s “Quadrupeds of America” may be 
found an extremely interesting account, writ- 
ten by Robert Wickliffe, of Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, giving the results of a series of careful 
and successful experiments which he carried 
on for more than thirty years. These experi- 
ments showed that the cross for certain 
purposes was a very valuable one, but no 
systematic efforts to establish and perpetuate 
a breed of buffalo cattle were afterward made 
until within the past ten years. Mr. Jones has 
bred buffalo bulls to Galloway, Polled Angus, 
and ordinary range cows, and has succeeded 
in obtaining calves from all. Such half-breeds 
are of very large size, extremely hardy, and, 
as a farmer would say, “easy keepers.” 
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