BLIKI-ALO COW. 

 Presented to the American Bison Society by the C. E. Conrad Estate, Kalispell, Montana. 



The Secretary discussed with jNIrs. C. Ef. Conrad, 

 executrix of the C. E. Conrad Estate, the aims of the 

 American Bison Society, with the result that a fine pair 

 of huffaloes from this herd was presented to the Society 

 for preservation on the new ^Montana ran^e. Soon 

 afterwards the following letter was received from Mrs. 

 Conrad: — 



Kaijspeix, jNIontana, October 5, 1908. 

 ]Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, 



Secretary, The American Bison Society, 

 Meriden, X. H. 

 ]\Iy Dear Sir:— 



After considering your suggestion made while you 

 were here a few days ago, namely, that inasmuch as Mr. 

 Coni-ad was so much interested in the preservation of the 

 pure-blood American Bison that he gave a great deal of 

 personal time and means to the work, founding the C. E. 

 Conrad Buffalo Herd, his heirs might present a pair to the 

 Bison Society in his name — as a nucleus of the Flathead 

 Reservation herd, we have decided to do so. We have 



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