It is not the purpose of the writer to discuss in this re- 

 port the details of Mr. Goodnight's interesting experi- 

 ments, of his many failures and of his plucky fights to 

 overcome them. Suffice it to say that although a good 

 start has been made, the experiment will have to be carried 

 much farther before the cattalo can be produced at a cost 

 sufficiently low to make it commercially valuable. But it 

 seems not unlikely that a series of careful scientific experi- 

 ments, conducted* under the direction of someone making 

 a specialty of the breeding of hybrids, might bring results 

 that would more than pay for the time and money ex- 

 pended. Were such a series of experiments undertaken, 

 I doubt not that ^Ir. Goodnight would co-operate by giv- 

 ing the results of his own long and valuable experience. 



The Goodnight buffaloes and cattaloes roam over a 

 range of about three thousand acres, half prairie and half 

 broken country, the latter partly grown over wdth scrub 

 trees and bushes. Natural springs supply the water, 

 which is piped into iron tanks and into natural hollows in 

 the ground. At the time of the Secretary's visit, the ani- 

 mals were in splendid condition, except that in some cases 

 the heel fly had bothered them, so that they had licked off 

 the hair in some places. Twenty buffalo calves were born 

 in this herd in 1908. 



Mr. and ^Irs. Goodnight readily consented to give a 

 pair of yearling buffaloes for the ^lontana Range, and a 

 little later ]Mr. Goodnight formally presented the animals 

 in the following letter: — 



Goodnight^ Texas^ November 25, 1908. 

 Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, 



INIeriden, N. H.' 

 My dear sir and friend: — 



This is to assure you that any time during March and 

 April, not later than JNIay 1st, we will load you free for 

 your National Park in JNIontana, and to go to no other 

 preserve, one pair of choice buft'alo yearlings, one bull and 

 one heifer. Yours respectfully, 



C. GOODXIGHT. 



There remained but one of the large western herds to 

 visit, — that of James Philip. This herd is established near 

 Fort Pierre, South Dakota, and to this town the Secretary 



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