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established by crossing bull buffalo, with domestic cows; the buffalo cow not 
producing a hybrid offspring. This hybrid race is perfectly fertile, either with 
itself or when again crossed with domestic cattle; and it is considered that a 
strain of buffalo-blood will lead to> the cattle in the Northwestern states being 
better enabled to* withstand the blizzards of those districts. 
In general the buffalo* has no reason to fear any of the other animals that 
frequent the regions it inhabits, for if an individual should be attacked, the 
AMERICAN BUFFALOES, SHOWING METHODS OF HUNTING THEM. 
bulls rally to its assistance, and compel the assailant to* flee before the blows 
which they inflict with their armed heads. It is only when wounded by the 
Indian’s arrow, or by the bullet of the white man’s rifle, or else from becom¬ 
ing sick from any cause, that this great beast falls a victim to its four-footed 
enemies. The cunning white wolf is the one it has most to* dread; for these 
stealthy, thick-coated Arabs of the prairies soon ascertain when a buffalo is in 
