were in Rocky Mountains Park will be at Buffalo Park, 
and 11 of the aged bulls in the latter park will be added 
to the 19 bulls at Rocky Mountains Park, thus forming 
an exhibition herd of 30 bulls, which it is considered 
will be an added attraction to tourists and others visit- 
ing Banff in the Rocky Mountains Park. 
The following table may prove of interest as show- 
ing the increases, importations, decreases, ete., of all 
the bison in the three parks, from 1909 to January 1st 
last, which are maintained by the Dominion govern- 
ment. 
ANNUAL INCREASE AND DECREASE 
| 
Balance Butchered, | 
from died or Total at | Per cent 
| previous given end of | of annual 
year | Increase | Imported away. year | increase 
US O Obras ker acre tc 469 54 218 5G! 685 ql Be 
a UO ee Acme 685 ala 89 9 882 16.7 
TOMA RA, Raps 6 pos 15 882 188 22 ie | 1,079 21.3 
LO Meters eeratc oes 1,079 241 7 vi 1,320 22.3 
OTS ae cpe ce ae & 1,320 250 2 1,558 19.0 
The percentage of increase as above shown, with 
special reference to the last year, is most gratifying, 
and still more so when it is considered that the yearly 
increase under purely natural conditions and among 
wild herds of bison has been estimated at only 5 per 
cent, owing to occasional starvation during winter 
months, wolves, and the enormous losses sustained 
through the at one time annual migrations when many 
bison perished through crossing rivers and lakes and 
breaking through rotten ice. 
Special attention has, since the creation of this 
branch, been paid to the prevention of disease, espe- 
cially any diseases of an epidemic or contagious order, 
and so far, thanks to the intelligent carrying out on 
the part of the park superintendents concerned of all 
instructions in regard to water, feed, strict segrega- 
tion of any bovines or other animals in or near the 
parks, where the bison are maintained, and which have 
manifested symptoms of epidemic or contagious dis- 
ease, no such cases have appeared among the bison. 
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