

GROUP OF CATTALO. 

 Goodnight Ranch, Goodnight, Texas. 



one day when he was off with liis cattle outfit, he roped 

 two, tied their legs and sent them back to her in a cart. 

 Soon after, her brothers, the Dyer boys, roped two more. 

 She reared them all, though one of the heifers died before 

 it was of breeding age, leaving one bull and two heifers as 

 the nucleus of the now famous herd. 



Though the Goodnights have plenty of healthy senti- 

 ment, this herd has not been perpetuated for sentimental 

 reasons only. Charles Goodnight is a practical ranchman, 

 and he has "treated the buffaloes as he has treated his cattle 

 and sheep and hogs, — as a business proposition, — as a 

 source of revenue. He has sold many buffaloes at splen- 

 did prices, and after a life-time's experience, he earnestly 

 maintains that the buffalo is the most profitable farm ani- 

 mal in America today. So far he has made no use of buf- 

 falo wool, but on learning of the Secretary's experiments 

 with this material, he said that this spring he would shear 

 a number of the animals and send the wool to be woven into 

 cloth. 



^Ir. Goodnight was also the pioneer in the lireeding of 

 cattalo, an animal which, as its coined name suggests, is a 



