prise a reserve of fresh blood which will be of great value in 

 keeping up the standard of other herds. 



Mr Maxwell Graham, who has charge of wild life matters 

 in the Canadian Territories, has made a study of the buffalo 

 and their habits and considers the Wood Bison to be larger than 

 the buffalo of the southern plains and the fur darker, and be- 

 lieves them to be superior in size, weight and stamina to any 

 other herds now existing. 



The only mounted specimen of the Wood Bison in existence 

 where weight and measurements were taken at the time it was 

 killed, is the bull killed by Harry V. Radford* west of Slave 

 River, between Fort Smith and the Peace River, December 1, 

 1909. (See illustration.) Mr. Radford had with him a 200-lb. 

 steelyard of extreme accuracy and carefully ascertained the 

 weight by the piecemeal method. The weight and measure- 

 ments are as follows: 



Total weight (weighed piecemeal) . . 2,402 pounds 



Height at shoulder 5 ft. 10 ins. 



Heiglit at rump 5 ft. 4 ins. 



Circumference of neck 6 ft. ins. 



Circumference of muzzle behind 



nostrils 2 ft. 3% ins. 



Girth behind foreleg 9 ft. 9 ins. 



Length of head and body 9 ft. 7 ins. 



Length of tail vertebrae 1 ft. 7^ ins. 



Circumference of forearm 1 ft. 91/4 ins. 



The skin was fully % inch thick all over the body, where 

 not thicker. On the shoulders it was one inch, on the neck and 

 throat 1/4 to 1% inches, on forehead 2% or over, elsewhere on 

 head % to ll^ inches. 



Mr. Radford applied to the Minister of Agriculture for 

 the Province of Alberta for a permit to collect specimens of 

 animals and birds in 1909. This permit was granted by the 



* Harry V. Radford was a member of the American Bison Society which 

 contributed $200 towards the expense of his expedition. The Society received 

 a report from Mr. Radford on his success in obtaining a specimen of the Wood 

 Bison. 



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