HALF BISON (OR BUFFALO) HEIFER. 



This extraordinary animal curiosity of the half-breed, or cross 

 of tlie Bison bull and Durham cow, exhibited at the fair of the 

 American Institute, at the " Crystal Palace,'' was raised and fat- 

 tened by James Dunlap, Esq., of Jacksonville, Morgan county, 

 Illinois. He started her on foot in company with a drove of cat- 

 tle, but being naturally wild and leaving her associates behind, 

 she became unruly and ran back several times, and could not be 

 driven without sending with her an associate in the shape of an 

 old thin ox, when she came quietly through on steamboat and 

 rail car to our city, being the first specimen ever known in the 

 city of New- York. 



She was sold at the Washington drove yard to Thomas F. De 

 Voe, a butcher of Jeflferson market, at a "fancy price," for the 

 purpose of inmiediate slaughter; but at the request of the Mana- 

 gers of the American Institute, Col. DeVoe (who is a member) 

 was induced to gratify the thousands who were afterwards inte- 

 rested in this animal curiosity. 



She was withdrawn a few days before the close of the "fair'' 

 and slaughtered. Her age was between three and four years 

 old — alive weight, nearly 1,700 lbs. The four qxtarters {dieadi) 

 weighed 940 lbs. On the hump ^ fat measured 2>l inches; on the 

 loin two inches, and cut beautifully marbled. 



Her color almost black, with tlie tan colored long hair on her 

 shoulders, and also long hair under the chin and at the fetlock, 

 with the turn up horns, round nose, and the wild flashing eye of 

 the Bison. When fastened up in a large pen, she was so cross 

 and vicious that no person dare go in the pen with her, and when 

 a red object presented itself, whether a shawl on a lady or the red 

 shirt of a workman, she would be much excited, and pitch directly 

 at them, or as far as she could go. 



Col. DeVoe reported that he had sold all her "beef," witliout 

 giving an opinion, either in favor or against the eating qualities, 

 but wished those to whom he sold cuts to report on this point, 



