REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STATE HERDS 
ae TER careful survey of the field during the past 
year the committee has been unable to make any 
real progress in the establishment of herds of buffalo 
under State auspices. One of the projects referred to 
in the last report, the Gilbert herd in Nebraska, has 
been taken over by the Department of Agric ulture, and 
the establishment of this herd on the Niobrara Reser- 
vation in northern Nebraska is now practically an 
accomplished fact. 
During the present year, with the convening of 
legislatures in three-fourths of the States and many 
projects for the protection of game under considera- 
tion, it may be possible to secure some provision for a 
State reservation adapted for buffalo. The most 
promising outlook at present seems to be in Missouri 
and in New York. The committee recommends that 
the matter be taken up by the Secretary with the proper 
officers in these two States with a view to ascertaining 
whether the desired object can be carried out. 
Attention is again called to the fact brought out by 
the last census of buffalo that eleven of the Southern 
States as well as several States in the northwest and 
on the Pacific coast are without a single living speci- 
ment of the American bison. The people and espe- 
cially the children in these States have no opportunity 
of seeing the buffalo in life, unless on the occasion of a 
visit to a traveling menagerie or circus. The com- 
mittee therefore renews its recommendation that, as a 
means of popularizing the work of the Society and of 
extending interest in the buffalo, attention be directed 
in some of these States toward the establishment of 
municipal herds, which it is beheved can be provided 
with a minimum of expense if the proper co-operation 
ean be secured from Boards of Trade and Chambers of 
Commerce in some of the leading cities. The time seems 
opportune for inaugurating a campaign of this kind, 
particularly in the cities of Atlanta, Ga., and Memphis, 
Tenn. It is believed that if the Secretar y will take up 
these matters with the Chambers of Commerce or other 
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