LET US GO AFIELD 



tailing it at current beef prices. Down in Butte this 

 meat sells round fifty cents a pound." 



There would seem to be no reason to doubt the 

 accuracy of the foregoing; and, indeed, Christmas 

 buffalo meat has long been more than a semi-occa- 

 sional novelty in the West. When the Canadian 

 Government purchased the Pablo-Allard herd of 

 buffaloes of the Flathead Reservation it was found 

 impossible to round up and collect all the buffaloes. 

 Occasionally, since then, some of the old bulls have 

 been killed; and now, it seems, the owner does not 

 hesitate to sacrifice even a cow of the species. 



In any case Allard grew weary of being the prac- 

 tical protector of the species when our own Gov- 

 ernment refused to buy his buffaloes and allowed 

 them to be shipped outside this country. These 

 specimens are the fag-ends of the largest herds of 

 buffalo left alive in our own Republic. There would 

 have been no difficulty in raising large numbers of 

 them under government care in this country, just 

 as has been done in the Canadian herd at Wain- 

 wright, where some hundreds of calves are now 

 born annually, and where there is increase ready 

 for sale or other distribution. 



In this country every man is as good as his neigh- 

 bor and a little better. We all of us feel entitled 



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