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From this herd "Buffalo Jones " now secures three or four full-blooded 

 buffalo calves each year, and a number of half-breeds " catalo " he calls 

 them. The hybrid product of the buffalo and Galloway cattle is a 

 magnificent animal. Its robe is nearly black, fine and silky in texture, 

 and with a brilliant lustre characteristic of the Galloway cattle. For 

 enough of one of these robes to make a coat Lady Foster, wife of 

 Treasurer Foster, of Canada, once offered Mr. Jones 3oodols., saying she 

 preferred it to seal. 



In half breeds the domestic animal seems to predominate, and the 

 casual observer might not notice the long hair, the small hump at the 

 shoulders, and the slight shagginess about the head. These catalo 

 have been bred back until they were only one-sixteenth domestic, 

 when even his trained eye could see no difference from the full-blooded 

 buffalo. 



The profits of buffalo raising are considerable. The animal feeds 

 cheaply, and looks after himself in all sorts of weather. His robe alone 

 is worth the price of two good bullocks. In domestication his meat is 

 equal to any range beef. One good animal will yield each year fur 

 sufficient to make a blanket. A taxidermist will give from icodols. to 

 5oodols. for his head, and if Mr. Jones's big bull. Jumbo, were put on the 

 market he would bring looodols. 



What the possibilities of domestication maybe are yet to be determined. 

 The two big bulls of the Omaha herd are driven to a cart by the owner, 

 and when it is considered that their agility is remarkable for the size of the 

 animals, that their strength is tremendous, and that they have the speed of 

 the average horse, this means something. This novel chariot team, with 

 perhaps the whole herd, will form one of the attractions at the World's 

 Fair. 



Mr. Jones is more than an adventurer or a speculator. He has become 

 an enthusiast on the subject of buffaloes, and no man ever rode 

 hobby more honestly or earnestly. When he began capturing these 

 animals he knew no more of their peculiarities than other plains- 

 men, but his association with them has filled him with a love for the 

 great shaggy brutes and a zeal for their salvation that is quite sublime in 

 its way. 



In beginning the work of subjugation pitchforks were used by men 

 when going about among the animals, but the buffaloes were intelligent 

 enough to comprehend the nature of the sharp tines, and when the 

 pitchforks were not to be seen they reasserted their majesty. Mr. Jones 

 hit upon the device of having short pieces of gaspipe plugged at either end 

 with wood, and these plugs filled with sharp brads. These weapons were 



