American Big-Game Hunting 



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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