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the past year or two he has sold over sixty 

 pure buffalo, and that nearly as many more 

 have died through injuries received in trans- 

 porting them by rail. 



Mr. Jones is the only individual who, of re- 

 cent years, has made any systematic effort to 

 cross the buffalo with our own domestic cattle. 

 As far back as the beginning of the present 

 century, this was successfully done in the 

 West and Northwest ; and in Audubon and 

 Bachman's "Quadrupeds of America" may be 

 found an extremely interesting account, writ- 

 ten by Robert Wickliffe, of Lexington, Ken- 

 tucky, giving the results of a series of careful 

 and successful experiments which he carried 

 on for more than thirty years. These experi- 

 ments showed that the cross for certain 

 purposes was a very valuable one, but no 

 systematic efforts to establish and perpetuate 

 a breed of buffalo cattle were afterward made 

 until within the past ten years. Mr. Jones has 

 bred buffalo bulls to Galloway, Polled Angus, 

 and ordinary range cows, and has succeeded 

 in obtaining calves from all. Such half-breeds 

 are of very large size, extremely hardy, and, 

 as a farmer would say, "easy keepers." 



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