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this land was set apart as a pleasure ground for the na- 

 tion. Those four hundred have gradually been killed for 

 their heads and for their pelts, and the calves have been 

 destroyed by the mountain lions and by the severity of 

 the winters, until finally only twenty-three were the sorry 

 remains of that splendid herd that was set apart for the 

 nation in the Yellowstone ; and the small appropriation of 

 $15,000 was made. Eighteen animals were purchased, 

 part of them from the Flathead herd. The Flathead In- 

 dians, with more prudence than their white brethren had 

 shown, saved thirty-five calves a good many years ago, 

 out of the dying herd, and made them their private prop- 

 erty. And that little herd of thirty-five increased until 

 there were nearly three hundred of them. And this herd 

 now in the Yellowstone was selected mainly from the Flat- 

 head herd because they were reared in an altitude some- 

 thing like that in which the new herd was to live. To this 

 herd were added animals from Texas — from the Good- 

 night herd — and from Corbin's New Hampshire herd — 

 so as to mingle the blood normally in this new herd as the 

 blood of the nations has been mingled in the United States 

 of America. This is the way to produce a race, to mix 

 them and get the best you can from everywhere. And so, 

 starting upon the proposition of building once more a 

 herd in the Yellowstone, that little herd from eighteen has 

 has grown to thirty-nine, and we have hopes of sixteen 

 more in the spring. 



Now I only speak about this, my friends, because it is a 

 kindred question. It is one of the things that grows out 

 of the agitation of forestry. A man or a woman who pre- 

 serves a tree in a practical way will preserve the things 

 that that tree shelters and produces and that are useful 

 to man. Again, I wish to bid you God-speed, and I hope 

 you will carry with you to every part of the United States 

 the enthusiasm which you will generate here — the en- 



