YOUNG BUFFALOES EATING HAY 

 By Ernest Harold Baynes 



Adirondacks was then brought up. Professor Hooper 

 asked if the Society was prepared to propose to the State 

 of New York that, say, twenty-five square miles should be 

 fenced in a favorable locality on the State Reservation, 

 with the primary object of starting a bison herd therein. 



Dr. Palmer moved that the President and Executive 

 Committee be empowered to take such action as they 

 may deem advisable looking to the establishment of a 

 State herd of bison in the Adirondack Park or such other 

 State parks as may be considered most available. Carried. 



The matter of providing funds for the purchase of 

 animals was then discussed. Mr. Stonebridge suggested 

 the possible advisability of entering into a contract with 

 some owners of existing herds, whereby in return for a 

 yearly contribution towards the care of the herd, the 

 Society would receive the annual increase. Mr. Baynes 

 favored raising money as heretofore, and going to the 

 herd owners with a more definite proposition. 



After some further discussion, it was finalh' voted: 



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