MONTANA NATIONAL HERD 
LOOKING NORTH, TOWARDS MISSION CREEK, MONTANA NATIONAL BISON RANGE 
REPORT ON CANADA’S NATIONAL HERD 
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 
MARCH 31, 1913. 
ITHIN the three National parks in which the Do- 
minion Government maintains the buffalo in a 
state of semi-captivity are to-day by actual count 1,287 
buffalo. The number of males is approximately the 
same as the number of females, and a large number of 
the former are aged. The total number of calves suc- 
cessfully raised during the year is 221. 
Several applications from city parks for live 
buffalo have been lately received and are under con- 
sideration, and one cow buffalo has been loaned to the 
City of Vancouver, B. C., during the past season. 
It has been found necessary to slaughter some of 
the fierce old bulls which had been injured while fight- 
ing, and the balance of these aged animals will later 
be transferred from their resnective parks to Banff, 
where they will doubtless be a great attraction to 
tourists and others. 
With the exception of seven head received from 
Michael Pablo, no further acquisitions have been made 
during the past year. The shipment in question 
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