RESULTS OF THE ROUND- UP 



HABITS OF ANTELOPE. 



BY ALEX. M 'DONALD 



Here, in the heart of the antelope country 

 of the great Northwest, we see these animals 

 almost every day, and can always make sure 

 of seeing them if we care to, an hour or two 

 after leaving the ranch house. 



I have always thought I should hate to be 

 an antelope, as their only salvation is con- 

 tinual watchfulness. They are always on the 

 lookout for danger, and it takes mighty little 

 to start them on a dead run. 



They can outrun anything that lives, ex- 

 cepting a good deerhound or greyhound. 

 Some of our best dogs are half Scotch deer- 

 hound and half greyhound ; but a dog of the 

 pure Glengarry breed, though not quite so 

 fast as the greyhound cross, is a more use- 

 ful hound, as he is not afraid to tackle a 

 timber wolf, should one be put up, and he is 

 death to the coyote. 



In the late spring all our antelope work 

 their way into the sand hill country along the 

 South Saskatchewan. This land is utterly 

 valueless for farming purposes, but seems to 



suit the antelope, and in this great stretch 

 of uninhabited country they rear their young 

 undisturbed. In the late fall they are back 

 in numbers. But all do not leave us in the 

 summer, a few staying round the ranch all 

 the year. 



Our pastures are wired, and are generally 

 three or four miles square. When a band 

 of antelope gets into one of these pastures 

 they cannot get out again, unless we leave a 

 gate open. There have been three antelope 

 in one pasture for nearly a year. I have 

 never seen them try to jump the wired fence, 

 which in places is only three feet high. I 

 have heard and read of antelope jumping all 

 kinds of obstruction, but it is the general 

 belief here that an antelope will not jump 

 over anything a foot high. 



There will be plenty of antelope in this 

 country for many a long year to come. 



But sometimes even the old hunters are 

 mistaken about the habits of game. Here 

 is a photograph of an antelope making a 

 huge jump. — Editor. 



ANTELOPE DO JUMP 

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