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American buffalo that can be had, and to 
start, in some one of the Western States, an 
experimental farm for buffalo breeding and 
buffalo crossing. With a herd of fifty pure- 
bred buffalo cows and a sufficient number of 
bulls, a series of experiments could be carried 
on which might be of great value to the 
cattle-growers of our western country. The 
stock of pure buffalo could be kept up and in- 
creased; surplus bulls, pure and half bred, 
could be sold to farmers; and, in time, the 
new race of buffalo cattle might become so 
firmly established that it would endure. 
To undertake this with any prospect of 
success, such a farm would have to be man- 
aged by a man of intelligence and of wide 
experience in this particular field; otherwise 
all the money invested would be wasted. Mr. 
Jones is perhaps the only man living who 
knows enough of this subject to carry on an 
experimental farm with success. 
Although only one species of buffalo is 
known to science, old mountaineers and In- 
dians tell of four kinds. These are, besides 
the ordinary animal of the plains, the ‘‘moun- 
tain buffalo,” sometimes called “bison,” which 
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