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kept up and increased ; surplus bulls, pure 

 and half bred, could be sold to farmers ; 

 and, in time, the new race of buffalo cat- 

 tle might become so firmly established 

 that it would endure. 



To undertake this with any prospect of 

 success, such a farm would have to be 

 managed 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 such an experimental 

 farm with success. 



Although only one species of buffalo is 

 known to science, old mountaineers and 

 Indians tell of four kinds. These are, be- 

 sides the ordinary animal of the plains, 

 the " mountain buffalo/' sometimes called 

 " bison," which is found in the timbered 

 Rocky Mountains ; the " wood buffalo " 

 of the Northwest, which inhabits the tim- 

 bered country to the west and north of 

 Athabaska Lake ; and the " beaver buffa- 

 lo." The last named has been vaguely 

 described to me by northern Indians as 

 small and having a very curly coat. I 

 know of only one printed account of it ; 

 and this says that it had " short, sharp 

 horns, which were small at the root and 



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